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	land_n	sea_n	3,940	4	6.1046	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63520	A true, exact, and perfect relation of the famous and renowned victorie gained by the most redoubted armie of the mightie and victorious monarch Philip, of the name the fourth King of Spaine, &c. the seventh of September, being upon the eve of the nativitie of our lady : against the forces of Levvis, of that name the 13 French King : then straightly beleaguering both with navall and land powers the frontier citie of Fuenteravia / written by a Gentleman that was an eyewitnesse of the same.	Gentleman that was an eyewitnesse of the same.	1641 (1641)	Wing T2699; ESTC R9851	12,756	30

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