according to all accounts
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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 James Herbert Walker
He started with nothing, too, according to all accounts.
From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer
It had been years according to all accounts since the unhappy Londoners had so sweltered beneath the scorching rays of an almost tropic sun.
From The Land of Promise by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
The steamer may have brought supplies for this camp; and according to all accounts the soldiers inside of the breastworks are in need enough of them.
From A Lieutenant at Eighteen by Oliver Optic
It appeared very much like it, and, according to all accounts, De Retz paid his servants in good money, while those who served the Cardinal were generally rewarded by empty promises.
From My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France by Herbert Hayens
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