anecdotic

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It can scarcely be said to present the life or character of Lamb in a novel aspect, and even the anecdotic material in which it abounds does not appear altogether fresh.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

The usual speech—reminiscent, anecdotic, prophetic of tremendous triumphs, mildly humorous, pathetic.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

But as a novelist he does not seem to me to be of much importance, nor even as a tale-teller, except of the anecdotic kind.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century 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

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