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	people_n	see_v	5,614	4	3.3572	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51353	An Account of the present persecution of the Church in Scotland in several letters.	Morer, Thomas, 1651-1715.; Sage, John, 1652-1711.; Monro, Alexander, d. 1715?	1690 (1690)	Wing M2722; ESTC R6062	62,539	78

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