anecdotic

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Accordingly, at each opportunity, with seeming innocence, I "wiped his eye," as they say at a battue, and certainly reaped the anecdotic "kudos" Mr. So-and-so had cunningly contrived and hoped to achieve for himself.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

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)

In discussing catastrophes, the Duke indulges in statements, partly scientific, partly anecdotic, which appear to me to be somewhat misleading.

From Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry

"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

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