Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	according_a	daughter_n	zion_n	27	3	8.5041	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49873	The wonders of God's creation manifested, in the variety of eight vvorlds as they were made known experimentally to the author J. Lead.	Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.	1695 (1695)	Wing L792; ESTC R216656	27,087	97

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