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	time_n	town_n	5,945	4	6.0551	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59168	The fourscore and eleventh epistle of Lucius Annæus Seneca the philosopher written vpon occasion of the sudden burning of lions in France : translated out of the original into English verse.; Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. Liber XIV, 91. English	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.	1666 (1666)	Wing S2511; ESTC R10480	4,186	13

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