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	kingdom_n	part_n	5,398	4	4.2683	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78229	The case of the army soberly discussed.		1647 (1647)	Wing C1013; Thomason E396_10; ESTC R201646	4,399	9

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