Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	country_n	great_a	king_n	7,647	5	3.5976	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59973	A familiar discourse or dialogue concerning the Mine-Adventure	Shiers, William.; Corporation of the Mine Adventurers of England. Second abstract of the state of the mines of Bwlehyr-Eskir-Hyr.	1700 (1700)	Wing S3458; ESTC R10992	76,138	191

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