Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	pass_v	side_n	1,248	5	5.9994	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38851	An Exact account of the elector of Saxony's passing the Rhine, with his army, defeating several of the French, and rendering himself master of several strong places abandon'd by them together with the raising of the blockade of Mountmelian in Savoy.		1691 (1691)	Wing E3569; ESTC R17151	2,026	1

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