anecdotic

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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

She made Count d’Orsay familiar, she made Charles Greville present; I thought it wonderful that she could be anecdotic about Miss Edgeworth. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey

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

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

Among the artists identified with this movement there was The pre-Raphaelites. little really in common except in impatience of the prevailing modes of empty academic convention or anecdotic frivolity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various