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	time_n	9,883	5	3.3059	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09043	Moderatus, the most delectable & famous historie of the blacke knight:[...]	Parry, Robert, fl. 1540-1612.	1595 (1595)	STC 19337; ESTC S120347	122,780	172

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