Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	day_n	night_n	shoot_v	1,094	5	9.3173	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34594	A particular account of the present siege of Mastricht with the sundry remarkable circumstances thereto relating : being the substance of a letter written out of Holland by a friend to a person of quality in London.	Carr, William, 17th cent.	1676 (1676)	Wing C633; ESTC R3859	15,827	25

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