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1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War ii. i. f. cliv^v In all euentes [Fr. en tout euenement], warre shulde be begonne agaynst the Athenyans.

1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale vi. iv. 710 He vsed the same argument..saying, That the gouernment of few lords, is the gouernment of few tyrants: and that it was better at all euents to haue but one tyrant.

1685 J. Evelyn Diary 2 Oct. (1955) IV. 479 In all events, whatever do become of the C. of Eng: It is certainely of all the Christian Professions on the Earth, the most Primitive, Apostolical, & Excellent.

1762 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (new ed.) V. 161 Civil war..must, in all events, prove infinitely calamitous to the whole nation.

1769 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 606/1 She is at all events intitled to the customary hold estates.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. ii. 73 Dupleix sent repeated orders that it [sc. the reinforcement] might be intercepted at all events.

1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. x. 603 Berkstead was a pedlar, or at all events a hawker of small wares.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 30 Not this at all events, which is the opposite of truth.

1938 A. Berkeley Not to be Taken xii. 223 That was plucky of you, Rona, at all events. But you've been plucky all along.

1993 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (1994) 227 In all events a lady's maid was supposed to be youthful.

2013 Jrnl. Hist. Soc. Nigeria 22 179 At all events, the lot of the leprosy sufferer was hardly an enviable one.