anecdotic

Example Sentences

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Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it.

From Little Eyolf by Archer, William

Be that as it may, I never was accused of relating a garbled, broken, and disjointed tale, and for the honor of my anecdotic powers, I resolved not to do so.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James

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

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)

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