Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	esq_n	honourable_a	sir_n	22,922	5	9.6389	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50785	For the good of the publick. A true method, shewing all ranks and degrees of men, how to purchase an estate, or make provision for posterity, out of idle expences ... By John Middleton, Esq;	Middleton, John, 17th/18th cent.	1720 (1720)	Wing M1975; ESTC T174454	10,059	21

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