anecdotic

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I can, it is true, be witty, anecdotic, and agreeable; I can spice conversation with epigram, and illustrate argument by apt example; but my forte is tenderness.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

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

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

From John Gabriel Borkman by Archer, William

The style is agreeably anecdotic, and the numerous woodcuts are quaint and graphic.'—Globe.

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by Roberts, W. (William)

The second class of old people are not anecdotic; they are rather hearers than talkers, listening to the young with an amused and critical attention. 

From Memories and Portraits by Stevenson, Robert Louis