Selected quad for the lemma: order_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	army_n	great_a	king_n	2,826	5	3.6464	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63307	A true account of the burning and sad condition of Bantam in the East-Indies in the war begun by the young king against his father, and of the great and imminent danger of the English factory there : in a letter from a member of the said factory, to a friend in London, by the last ship, which arrived on Saturday the 23th of this instant September 1682.	Member of the said factory.	1682 (1682)	Wing T2358; ESTC R5197	2,237	2

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