anecdotic

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At the same time biographical and anecdotic details please most people, and if they are not allowed to shoulder out criticism altogether, there can be no harm in them.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

"Comrades," the first play in the present volume, belongs to the same momentous creative period as "The Father" and "Countess Julie," although there is little anecdotic history attaching to this vigorous comedy.

From Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter by Oland, Warner

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

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

The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf.

From John Gabriel Borkman by Archer, William