Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	henry_n	john_n	robert_n	4,341	4	8.6601	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43591	The famous and remarkable history of Sir Richard Whittington three times Lord Major of London, who lived in the time of King Henry the Fift, in the year 1419 : with all the remarkable passages and things of note which hapned [sic] in his time, with his life and death / written by T.H.; Whittington and his cat.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1780; ESTC R10116	14,660	56

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