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	sir_n	21,582	5	7.4928	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67123	Letters of Sir Henry Wotton to Sir Edmund Bacon	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.; Bacon, Edmund, Sir.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3644; ESTC R25222	47,004	174

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