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  • Mr Pamphlett muttered "Consols," and refolded the newspaper hastily.

    Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • It had 'Consols' and other securities which it could offer for sale no doubt, and which, if sold, would augment its supply of bank notesand the relation of such securities to real cash will be discussed presently; but of real cash, the Bank of England for this purpose -- the banking bank -- had then so much and no more.

    Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851

  • After the success of his Waterloo exploit, Nathan Mayer Rothschild gained control of the Bank of England through his near monopoly of "Consols" and other shares.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008

  • "Consols" of the Bank of England, bonds which could never be redeemed, but which paid a stable rate of return.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008

  • "Consols" on the London Exchange after the Battle of Waterloo, in a pretended panic, Nathan Meyer Rothschild then secretly bought up the Consols sold in the panic by other holders at a low rate, and became the largest holder of Consols, and thus won control of the Bank of England in 1815.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008

  • Never soaring above threepence, and as often as not grovelling on the earth a penny lower, he yet represented the present writer as a large holder of Consols, a lender of money on mortgage, a

    Somebody's Luggage 2007

  • Ramchunder, East Indiaman, handed over to us yesterday your letter, and, today, I have purchased three thousand three hundred and twenty-three pounds 6 and 8d. three per cent Consols, in our joint names (H. and B. Newcome), held for your little boy.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • There was a mass of papers referring to the publishing business, which he had abandoned for Consols in

    On Forsyte 'Change 2004

  • Would that great white thing help Consols to rise?

    Swan Song 2004

  • When either of these events should occur, the property was to be realized, Lady Devine receiving a sum of a hundred thousand pounds, which, invested in Consols for her benefit, would, according to Sir Richard's prudent calculation exactly compensate for her loss of interest, the remainder going absolutely to the son, if living, to his children or next of kin if dead.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

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