Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	colonel_n	horse_n	lieutenant_n	1,115	5	9.3142	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95150	A true relation of a great victory obtained by the Parliament forces in Lincolnshire, under the command of the Lord Willoughby, Colonel Hobart, Colonel Cromwell, Lieutenant Generall Hotham. Declared in severall letters, one from Colonel Cromwell, to Colonel Hobart, dated from Shasten. And another from Master Bridge a minister, to a friend in London. Together with Colonel Hobart his answer to a letter sent him from some gentlemen, who were imprisoned in Crowland.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1643 (1643)	Wing T2883A; Thomason E104_12; ESTC R20867	2,195	8

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