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	king_n	law_n	941	4	4.3884	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69727	Chorea gigantum, or, The most famous antiquity of Great-Britan [sic], vulgarly called Stone-Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain, restored to the Danes by Walter Charleton ...	Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.; Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1663 (1663)	Wing C3666; ESTC R13338	53,474	82

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