anecdotic

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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

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

"That taste for story-telling—that anecdotic habit—is quite vulgar; nobody does it now."

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 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

Another new work is announced by Dumas, called Byron, in which we are promised the biography, love adventures, journeys, and anecdotic history of the great poet.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by