Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	army_n	enemy_n	great_a	1,068	5	2.8750	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95457	Tvvo petitions of divers free-men of England, inhabitants in the city of Bristoll, and in the adjacent parts. The one presented to the Honourable House of Commons, upon the 2. of September, 1647. Together with their answer thereunto. The other to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, at his head-quarters at Kingston. Both signed with many thousand hands.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1647 (1647)	Wing T3500; Thomason E405_23; ESTC R201895	8,089	16

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