Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	father_n	king_n	son_n	4,096	4	5.1305	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13126	The historie of tvvelve Cæsars emperours of Rome: written in Latine by C. Suetonius Tranquillus, and newly translated into English. With a marginall glosse, and other briefe annotations there-upon.; De vita Caesarum. English	Suetonius, ca. 69-ca. 122.; Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637. aut	1606 (1606)	STC 23422; ESTC S103242	20,696	344

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