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
A59967	Carolina, or, Loyal poems by Tho. Shipman, Esq.	Shipman, Thomas, 1632-1680.	1683 (1683)	Wing S3440; ESTC R11221	105,316	328

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