Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	king_n	son_n	time_n	4,078	4	3.3265	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48271	Irelands sad lamentation discovering its present danger in some remarkable passages which have happened since the discovery of the horrid Popish Plot : in a letter from a person of honour to his friend in London, upon the dissolution of the late Parliament.	F. L.	1680 (1680)	Wing L18; ESTC R36235	3,639	2

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