Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	brethren_n	full_a	great_a	36	3	2.1696	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86511	The honest souldier, or, a vindication of the reduced-officers, otherwise called reformadoes; against the blastings of most grosse untruths, wherewith they have been aspersed : or, the honest souldier, that between Jerusalem and Ierico, fell amongst thieves, who robbed him of his arrears, stripped him of his livelihood, and wounded him in his reputation.		1648 (1648)	Wing H2589; Thomason E441_34; ESTC R202563	13,474	16

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