Selected quad for the lemma: country_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	city_n	great_a	king_n	7,710	5	3.5489	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93057	A receipt for the state-palsie. Or, A direction for the setling the government of the nation: delivered in a sermon upon Proverbs 25.5. By S.S.	Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3043; Thomason E1015_4; ESTC R208172	11,455	27

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