anecdotic

Example Sentences

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The anecdotic life of Herschel, however, is now closed.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert

He was absorbed in the handling of his material, not in the lyric, dramatic, anecdotic, or rhetorical elements.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

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

For the rest, Asolando is a miscellany of old and new,—bright loose drift from the chance moods of genius, or bits of anecdotic lumber carefully recovered and refurbished, as in prescience of the nearing end.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

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