Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	able_a	great_a	king_n	1,308	4	3.4864	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96967	Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Common-wealth of Oceana: restrained to the first part of the preliminaries.	Wren, M. (Matthew), 1629-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing W3676B; Thomason E1659_2; ESTC R204148	28,805	109

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