according to all accounts
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He was a youngish, smart-looking Englishman of the florid type, was becoming known as a sportsman and, according to all accounts, was fabulously rich.
From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
It was swept away before the reservoir burst, according to all accounts.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert
I don't say you didn't deserve it; for, according to all accounts, you behaved well, and the girl would certainly have been drowned if you had not saved her.
From Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants by Optic, Oliver
The Hurons and Nipissings were, at that date, great friends, having constant intercourse, according to all accounts of those days.
From History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 With a Sketch of his Life by Butterfield, Consul Willshire
Beethoven was of a sour temper, according to all accounts, but he wrote his symphonies in the midst of tribulations under which few men would have worked at all.
From The Untroubled Mind by Hall, Herbert J. (Herbert James)
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