Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	country_n	king_n	5,468	4	3.4835	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43609	Mysterium sigillorum, herbarum & lapidum containing a compleat cure of all sicknesses and diseases of mind and body by means of the influences of the seven planets, adorned with copper plates & figures, shewing the foundation of this astronomical and coelestial science / written originally in Saxon, by ... Israel Hibner ... ; now translated into English for B. Clayton ...	Hiebner, Israel.; Clayton, B. (Billidge)	1698 (1698)	Wing H1795; ESTC R21740	71,637	260

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