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	name_n	5,555	4	4.7547	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97167	English Iliads, or a sea-fight reviewed in a poem occasioned by the death of a person of honour slain in the late vvar between the English and the Dutch. By J.W. Together with An Irenicum, or reflections on the trumpeter and conditions of peace.	J. W.; Warly, John, d. 1679.	1674 (1674)	Wing W874; ESTC R229728	7,069	28

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