Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	bring_v	letter_n	send_v	793	5	5.0867	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01283	The strategemes, sleyghtes, and policies of warre, gathered togyther, by S. Iulius Frontinus, and translated into Englyshe, by Rycharde Morysine; Strategematica. English	Frontinus, Sextus Julius.; Morison, Richard, Sir, d. 1556.	1539 (1539)	STC 11402; ESTC S102662	73,047	226

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and_o cutting_a of_o their_o hand_n send_v they_o to_o hannibal_n again_o ¶_o when_o diodorus_n keep_v and_o defend_v amphipolis_n with_o a_o garrison_n of_o man_n and_o suspect_v two_o thousand_o thraciens_fw-la which_o seem_v to_o be_v bend_v to_o spoil_v and_o destroy_v the_o city_n he_o feign_v a_o lie_n that_o a_o few_o ship_n of_o his_o ennemes_n be_v arryve_v at_o a_o strand_n hard_a by_o the_o city_n which_o may_v easy_o be_v take_v and_o spoil_v in_o hoop_n whereof_o he_o send_v forth_o those_o holowe_v heart_v thraciens_fw-la and_o than_o shut_v the_o gate_n and_o will_v no_o more_o receyve_v they_o in_o ¶_o of_o eruption_n and_o breakynge_n out_o of_o enemy_n cap._n xvii_o the_o roman_n which_o lie_v in_o garrison_n to_o defend_v the_o panormitain_n hear_a that_o hasdruball_n be_v come_n to_o lay_v siege_n to_o they_o of_o purpose_n set_v a_o few_o here_o and_o there_o one_o to_o defend_v the_o wall_n who_o small_a number_n hasdruball_n despise_v and_o rash_o approaching_n 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