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	shoot_v	1,104	5	9.3676	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94913	A true and exact relation of the whole proceedings of the Parliaments forces, that went out under the command of Colonel Brown with Colonell Manwerings forces into Kent, to appease the tumult raised there by the malignants and ill-affected to the Parliament. VVherein is a true relation of the taking of the towne of Tunbridge, which hertofore [sic] was never conquered; and by what means it was taken, and the losse that was on both sides. With many other observable passages related by one that was not only an eye witnesse, but in the whole service. Published according to order.	One that was not only an eyewitnesse but in the whole service.	1643 (1643)	Wing T2465; Thomason E62_11; ESTC R19133	2,078	7

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