Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	wisdom_n	wise_a	yield_v	20	3	6.9480	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66682	The great evil of procrastination, or, The sinfulness and danger of defering repentance in several discourses / by Anthony Walker ...	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing W304; ESTC R39412	176,678	430

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