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	king_n	kingdom_n	9,660	5	5.5175	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42687	A Touch of the times, or, Two letters casually intercepted the first, from the author of a late pamplet intituled, Day-fatality, to the supposed author of the Weekly packet of advice from Rome, 1679 : the second, the answer thereunto.	Gibbon, John, 1629-1718. Day-fatality.; Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing G653; ESTC R39569	2,332	2

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