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
A87878	Americans no Iewes, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that race. By Hamon l'Estrange, Kt.	L'Estrange, Hamon, 1605-1660.	1651 (1651)	Wing L1186; Thomason E643_3; ESTC R205986	59,127	85

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