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
A60324	The Catholick cause, or, The horrid practice of murdering kings, justified, and commended by the Pope in a speech to his cardinals, upon the barbarous assassination of Henry the Third of France, who was stabb'd by Jaques Clement, a Dominican Fryar : the true copy of which speech, both in Latin, and also faithfully rendred into English, you have in the following pages.; De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English & Latin	Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590.; Clemens non Papa, Jacobus, ca. 1510-ca. 1555.	1678 (1678)	Wing S3931; ESTC R21677	10,825	47

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