Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	captain_n	colonel_n	lieutenant_n	1,180	5	9.4650	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91425	A true relation of a brave defeat given by the forces in Plimouth, to Sellum Greenvile, on Tuesday, the eighteenth of February, 1644. Written thence by a sure hand to a speciall friend in London, and confirmed by many that were eye-witnesses of the same. With the taking of one lieutenant colonell, one major, some captaines, foure lieutenants, two ensignes, 92 common souldiers. There were also taken about 300 armes, good store of mattocks, shovels and faggots. Published according to order.	I. P.	1645 (1645)	Wing P44; Thomason E271_3; ESTC R212216	2,287	8

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