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	regiment_n	1,920	5	9.9256	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76763	A more particular and exact relation of the victory obtained by the Parliaments forces under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax. Wherein divers things very considerable are mentioned, which before are omitted in the severall relations formerly published. Being two letters, / the one written by G.B. a gentleman in the army, unto Lievtenant Colonell Roe, Scoutmaster Generall for the city of London. The other by Colonell Okey to a citizen of London. With the true coppy of a letter of the regaining of Leicester.	Bishop, George, gentleman in the Parliamentary army.; Okey, John, d. 1662.; Farmer, Edward, fl. 1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing B3019B; Thomason E288_38; ESTC R200113	5,018	8

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