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	land_n	4,480	4	5.6101	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49207	The French King's declaration for settling the general poll-tax together with his edict ordering all communities both regular and secular, and all particular persons, (who have any water from rivers, brooks, springs and fountains, or otherwise, whether for the ornament of their houses, or the improving to their estates) to pay such sums as shall be impos'd upon them in council, in order to have the benefit of the said waters confirm'd to them for the future.	France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV)	1695 (1695)	Wing L3107; ESTC R5373	17,167	32

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