anecdotic
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The anecdotic history, more or less authentic, of the Ettrick Shepherd would fill volumes, and I must try to give some of the cream of it presently.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George
She made Count d’Orsay familiar, she made Charles Greville present; I thought it wonderful that she could be anecdotic about Miss Edgeworth.
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Mount Dalton and its doings were an anecdotic mine, of which they had never explored a single "shaft."
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
In the Renaissance painters, on the other hand, with their descriptive preoccupations, their literary and anecdotic interests, he could see nothing but vulgarity and muddle.
From Art by Bell, Clive
Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it.
From Little Eyolf by Archer, William
