in reply to (OT) Words in context?

I know there's a term for it, I just can't remember it...

The term you're looking for is 'concordance'. www.concordance.com has concordances for several Great Books.

Many years back a friend helped a prof build a concordance of the Federalist Papers. If I recall correctly, there were some non-obvious (academic?) rules about what constituted a good concordance.