Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	day_n	great_a	see_v	5,499	4	3.3677	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52915	A True and perfect relation of the late and dreadful inundation which happened in Holland on Sunday Novemb. 3, 1675 at 4 of the clock afternoon, Saturn being then in opposition to Mars by which lamentable accident all the land is set under water from Amsterdam to Leyden, Utrecht, Woorden, Tergow, all South-Holland, and a great part of North-Holland, about Hoorn, &c. : together with an account of those further miseries and calamities that followed thereupon, as the drowning of men, women and children, and multitudes of cattel : as also a brief account of a dreaful storm with thunder and lightning on the same day at Antwerp and Gent, to the loss of the lives of divers porsons [sic].	Swaert, Stephen.	1675 (1675)	Wing N62; ESTC R32143	3,069	10

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