annalist

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Nevertheless, it is not for us to guestimate the workload of an annalist of the Floridian ancien regime.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2016

This was the same Mrs. Butler, formerly Mary Sigourney, whose reminiscences, the late Rev. Dr. Holmes, the learned and persevering annalist, has quoted in his "Memoir of the French Protestants."

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)

Then followed confusion, through eleven turbulent reigns that the annalist has failed to unravel.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

Philochorus was a careful and systematic annalist of the early third century b.c., who used official documents and verified his statements.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert

To the deep respect for Olga's wisdom a Russian annalist ascribes a preponderating influence in the introduction of Christianity into Russia from the Byzantine Empire rather than from Rome.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann