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	time_n	year_n	9,514	5	4.8121	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55984	The debaucht court. Or, The lives of the Emperor Justinian and his Empress Theodora the comedian. Faithfully translated into English.	Procopius.	1682 (1682)	Wing P3639A; ESTC R220546	83,289	169

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