The father of the deceased Prince loudly accused the Court of Vienna; and the imputation, though not supported by the slightest evidence, was, during some time, believed by the vulgar.
The politicians at the Dutch embassy imagined that now at length the parliament would listen to reason.

It seemed that even the country gentlemen must begin to contemplate the probability of an alarming crisis.

The merchants of the Royal Exchange, much better acquainted than the country gentlemen with foreign lands, and much more accustomed than the country gentlemen to take large views, were in great agitation.
Nobody could mistake the beat of that wonderful pulse which had recently begun, and has during five generations continued, to indicate the variations of the body politic.

When Littleton was chosen speaker, the stocks rose.

When it was resolved that the army should be reduced to seven thousand men, the stocks fell.