Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	house_n	king_n	5,696	4	3.5408	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07102	Mercurius academicvs Tenth week (16-21 Feb 1646); Mercurius academicus (Oxford : 1645)	Little, Richard, fl. 1645-1646, editor.; Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670, editor.	1646 (1646)	Thomason 53.E.322[27]; ESTC P6060	5,398	9

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