anecdotic

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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

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

It is suggestive of so many pleasant little platitudes about "long ago," with anecdotic memories of poor dear Dick or Harry, that it rarely fails to interest and amuse.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

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

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

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