Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	country_n	great_a	see_v	4,189	4	3.4001	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28414	The Bloody murtherer discovered, or, A true relation of the examination and confession of John Rendor, late butler to Esq. Bluck before that most worth person Sir William Turner (one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace) about 12 of the clock on Fryday night, who committed that great robbery and murther in the house of his master Esquire Bluck in Holbourn, on the fifth of this instant August last past ...		1674 (1674)	Wing B3261; ESTC R7384	4,528	9

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