Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	civil_a	time_n	year_n	2,057	5	4.5494	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64893	England's worthies under whom all the civill and bloudy warres since anno 1642 to anno 1647 are related : wherein are described the severall battails, encounters, and assaults of cities, townes, and castles at severall times and places, so that the reader may behold the time, yeare, and event of every battle, skirmish, and assault wherein London-apprentices had not the least share : as also, severall victories by sea by the noble Admirall Robert, Earle of Warwick.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1647 (1647)	Wing V304; ESTC R27574	33,001	106

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