Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	foot_n	horse_n	lieutenant_n	1,268	5	9.4061	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38882	An Exact and particular account of the defeat given to the rebels in the county of Cork by the Lord Justice Cox and Coll. Hastings, with 2000 of the army and militia and of the Lord Lisburn's cutting off a party of the French and Irish horse near Lanesborough Pass / in a letter from Dublin, June the 25.		1691 (1691)	Wing E3601; ESTC R36211	2,030	1

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