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	great_a	place_n	10,107	5	4.1120	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64203	St. Hillaries teares shed upon all professions from the judge to the petty fogger from the spruce dames of exchange to the durty walking fishmongers : from the coven-garden lady of iniquity to the turne-bal-streete-trull and indeed from the tower-staires to Westminster ferry : for want of a stirring midsomer terme this yeare of disasters, 1642 / written by one of his secretaries that had nothing else to doe.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1642 (1642)	Wing T508; ESTC R15224	5,194	8

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