Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	bullet_n	great_a	piece_n	2,015	5	9.9190	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41533	The present state of the republick of Venice as to the government, laws, forces, riches, manners, customes, revenue, and territory of that common-wealth : with a relation of the present war in Candia / written by J. Gailhard, gent.	Gailhard, J. (Jean)	1669 (1669)	Wing G126; ESTC R17673	97,861	294

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