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	son_n	5,910	4	4.8294	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95011	A true copy of a speech made by an English colonel to his regiment, immediately before their late transportation for Flanders at Harwich		1691 (1691)	Wing T2633A; ESTC R185628	11,235	12

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