Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	wound_n	year_n	young_a	13	3	6.0639	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34768	The French spy, or, The memoirs of John Baptist de la Fontaine, Lord of Savoy and Fontenai, late brigadier and surveyor of the French King's army, now a prisoner in the Bastile containing many secret transactions relating both to England and France / tr. from the French original, printed at Cologn in the year 1699.; Mémoires de Jean-Baptiste de La Fontaine. English	Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien, 1644-1712.	1700 (1700)	Wing C6597A; ESTC R2705	273,497	404

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