anecdotic

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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 Tupper, Martin Farquhar

Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it.

From Little Eyolf by Archer, William

For the rest, Asolando is a miscellany of old and new,—bright loose drift from the chance moods of genius, or bits of anecdotic lumber carefully recovered and refurbished, as in prescience of the nearing end.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

Her importance is thus very great: and it only wanted the proverbial or anecdotic "That!" to make it much greater.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

He was absorbed in the handling of his material, not in the lyric, dramatic, anecdotic, or rhetorical elements.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James