Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	build_v	great_a	king_n	5,770	4	3.5361	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67708	A discourse upon improving the revenue of the State of Athens written originally in Greek by Xenophon ; and made English from the original with some historical notes by W.M. Esq.; Discourse upon improving the revenue of the state of Athens. English	Xenophon.; Moyle, Walter, 1672-1721.	1697 (1697)	Wing X18; ESTC R9868	21,592	65

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