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1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. 426/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Dauid Steward..[was] made duke of Rothseie, when he was about eighteene yeares of age, or rather twentie, as by all accounts it must be.

1655 A. Evans Voice of King Charls Father 26 First, I answer, That in 1653. by all accounts the Foundation was laid.

1672 J. Phillips Maronides v. 98 In Pages Trouzes up he mounts, A Carriers horse, by all accounts.

1726 Abstr. Life Mary Stuart in E. Simmonds tr. Mary Queen of Scots Genuine Lett. to Earl of Bothwell 40 By all Accounts, as well as the foregoing Letters, she had about this Time, entertain'd that fatal Passion for the Earl of Bothwell.

1746 Scots Mag. 8 35/2 The loss of the regular troops, by the best computation, does not exceed 200; and by all accounts, the rebels have at least lost double that number.

1798 E. Inchbald Lovers' Vows ii. i. 19 By all accounts the Baroness was very haughty.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. i. 10 [She was] the prettiest one, though, ‘by all accounts’.

1887 A. Jessopp Arcady 236 Camp-ball..used to be a very favourite game in my parish some fifty years ago, and it was, by all accounts, a very rough one—something like football.

1935 R. A. Knox Barchester Pilgrimage iii. 94 His sister Maud, though by all accounts she was a great hand at interfering in other people's business, had little notion of looking after her own.

1966 A. Higgins Langrishe, go Down xvi. 125 She toured Ireland with a repertory company, a very mean affair by all accounts.

2008 R. Hill Cure for All Dis. (2009) ii. x. 306 Seems she were a bit of a goer, by all accounts—bit long in the tooth.