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

Moreover, Crawling Elk is the annalist and story-teller of his tribe.

From The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Garland, Hamlin

By much importunity," says an annalist, Mr. Ranford of Chowan, "in 1712 we prevailed upon Mr. Martin to let him baptize three of his Negroes, two women and a boy.

From The History of the Negro Church by Woodson, Carter Godwin

Marlborough's services to England and the cause of European independence in this campaign, recall one mournful feeling to the British annalist.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

Having taken their positions, the men presented a picture which we regret has not been preserved for us by some sporting annalist of the period.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?