Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	war_n	young_a	youth_n	25	3	7.3784	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27315	Poems upon several occasions with, A voyage to the island of love / by Mrs. A. Behn.	Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.	1684 (1684)	Wing B1757; ESTC R15250	83,722	308

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