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
A39387	The emperour and the empire betray'd by whom and how written by a minister of state residing at that court to one of the Protestant princes of the empire.; Empereur et l'empire trahis, et par qui & comment. English. 1682	Cerdan, Jean-Paul, comte de.	1682 (1682)	Wing E716; ESTC R27323	33,952	136

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