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
A89310	Severall letters from Colonell Morgan Governour of Gloucester, and Colonell Birch. Fully relating the maner of the taking of the city and garrison of Hereford, with the number slain on both sides, and the particular circumstances at the gaining thereof. With a perfect list of the names of the prisoners taken therein. Die Martis 23. Decemb. 1645. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled, that these letters, with the list, be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.	Morgan, Thomas, Sir, d. 1679?; Birch, John, 1615-1691.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1645 (1645)	Wing M2749; Thomason E313_17; ESTC R200478	3,105	8

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