anecdotic

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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

Its sentiments are more broadly human, and the programme that Strauss has followed never loses itself in picturesque or anecdotic details, but is planned on expressive and noble lines.

From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary

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

From Unicorns by Huneker, 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

At the same time biographical and anecdotic details please most people, and if they are not allowed to shoulder out criticism altogether, there can be no harm in them.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George