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	number_n	people_n	4,262	4	4.3170	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10616	A strange report of sixe most notorious vvitches who by their diuelish practises murdred aboue the number of foure hundred small children: besides the great hurtes they committed vpon diuers other people: who for the same, and many other like offences, were executed in the princely cittie of Manchen in high Germanie the. 29. of Iuly. 1600. Printed at Nuremberge by Lucas Mayr ingrauer, dwelling in Kramergesle: and now translated out of Dutch, according to the same coppy there imprinted.		1601 (1601)	STC 20890; ESTC S115808	3,741	12

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