anecdotic
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The style is agreeably anecdotic, and the numerous woodcuts are quaint and graphic.'—Globe.
From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts
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 Charles James Lever
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 C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf.
From John Gabriel Borkman by William Archer
Its sentiments are more broadly human, and the programme that Strauss has followed never loses itself in picturesque or anecdotic details, but is planned on expressive and noble lines.
From Musicians of To-Day by Mary Blaiklock
