Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	custom_n	year_n	yield_v	66	3	7.2813	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45754	The ladies dictionary, being a general entertainment of the fair-sex a work never attempted before in English.	N. H.; Dunton, John, 1659-1733.	1694 (1694)	Wing H99; ESTC R6632	671,643	762

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