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	name_n	part_n	5,676	4	4.1716	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11934	The lyfe of the most godly, valeant and noble capteine and maintener of the trew Christian religion in Fraunce, Iasper Colignie Shatilion, sometyme greate admirall of Fraunce. Translated out of Latin by Arthur Golding; Gasparis Colinii Castilloni, magni quondam Franciae amerallii, vita. English.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598, attributed name.; Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636, attributed name.; Hotman, François, 1524-1590, attributed name.	1576 (1576)	STC 22248; ESTC S117200	64,379	124

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