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
A92972	Severall considerations presented to the serious view of the severall companies of this honourable city this day assembled for the choyce of magistrates, and other officers. Read, consider, prosecute.		1642 (1642)	Wing S2755; Wing S2756; Thomason 669.f.6[90]; Thomason 669.f.11[131]; Thomason 669.f.12[57]; ESTC R210806	1,377	1

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