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	see_v	4,553	4	3.7689	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39031	The excellent woman described by her true characters and their opposites	Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.	1692 (1692)	Wing E3838; ESTC R21842	158,291	335

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