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	peace_n	war_n	1,027	5	5.8921	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85466	The gossips feast or, Morrall tales taking a view of things past, discoursing of things present, and conjecturing of things to come. By a well known moderne author.	A Well Known Moderne Author.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1316; Thomason E404_11; ESTC R201849	7,647	16

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