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	retreat_n	1,667	5	10.6575	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85301	A true relation of the twenty weeks siege of London derry, by the Scotch, Irish, and dis-affected English, with the daily proceeding passages thereof: as also the number of men killd, and taken prisoners on both sides. / Related in two letters from Captaine Henry Finch, one of the Captains of London derry, and one of the Aldermen of the city. To his friend in London.	Finch, Henry, Alderman of Londonderry.	1649 (1649)	Wing F935; Thomason E573_4; ESTC R206199	6,942	14

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