Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	ambassador_n	france_n	send_v	3,198	5	6.1600	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39081	Bucaniers of America, or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies by the bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French wherein are contained more especially the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama, &c. / written originally in Dutch by John Esquemeling ... ; and thence translated into Spanish by Alonso de Bonne-Maison ... ; now faithfully rendred into English.; Amerikaanse zeerovers. English	Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier).; Bonne-Maison, Alonso de.	1684 (1684)	Wing E3894; ESTC R21525	201,281	412

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