anecdotic
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This, which is known as “Adab literature,” is anecdotic in style with much quotation of early poetry and proverb.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
Accordingly, at each opportunity, with seeming innocence, I "wiped his eye," as they say at a battue, and certainly reaped the anecdotic "kudos" Mr. So-and-so had cunningly contrived and hoped to achieve for himself.
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf.
From John Gabriel Borkman by William Archer
But as a novelist he does not seem to me to be of much importance, nor even as a tale-teller, except of the anecdotic kind.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
Molly Ryan, the one sole domestic servant who accompanied the Luttrells, being of an uncommunicative temper, contributed no anecdotic details of in-door life to stimulate interest and keep curiosity alive.
From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Charles James Lever
