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	king_n	place_n	5,893	4	4.0838	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24307	An Account of a fight between the French and Irish for refusing to admit the French to be governors of Cork and Waterford in Ireland in a letter from an officer in Ireland to his friend in London.	Officer in Ireland.	1689 (1689)	Wing A180; ESTC R6185	1,852	2

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