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	son_n	4,635	4	4.8226	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33200	The Civil wars of Bantam, or, An Impartial relation of all the battels, sieges, and other remarkable transactions, revolutions and accidents that happened in the late civil wars between that king and his eldest son, commonly called by them, the young king : giving a particular account of the circumstances and manner of the siege and taking of the city of Bantam, and the English factory there, by the young king, with the help and assistance of the Dutch / in several letters from a gentleman residing for the East-India-Company at Bantam, to a merchant in London.		1682 (1682)	Wing C4366A; ESTC R43100	10,521	20

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