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	people_n	9,166	5	4.4099	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38371	England must pay the piper being a seasonable discourse about raising of money this session : in a letter to a member of the honourable House of Commons.		1691 (1691)	Wing E2935; ESTC R27351	9,757	9

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