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	river_n	town_n	5,503	4	6.2089	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00823	Sir Francis Drake his honorable lifes commendation, and his tragicall deathes lamentation.	Fitz-Geffry, Charles, 1575?-1638.	1596 (1596)	STC 10943; ESTC S105617	27,529	106

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