anecdotic

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And as a writer of personal or anecdotic history, let the reader turn to Voltaire's 'Siècle de Louis Quatorze,' in order to appreciate his extraordinary merit.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

Neither of the development of national life, nor of the clash of nations, did he really know anything that was not inessential and anecdotic.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

The figures in the former position are religious and supernatural, those in the interior historical and anecdotic.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

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

"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