Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	say_a	ship_n	vessel_n	2,929	5	10.6889	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26257	An Account of what English men of war have been taken, or otherwise lost, during the present war with some observations upon a late printed paper concerning that matter.		1696 (1696)	Wing A427; ESTC R216536	2,401	16

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