Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	abandon_v	country_n	king_n	99	3	3.0321	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66979	A sermon preach'd at Salters-Hall to the Societies for Reformation of Manners, May 31, 1697 by John Woodhouse.	Woodhouse, John, d. 1700.	1697 (1697)	Wing W3463; ESTC R26398	23,244	66

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