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 Roberts, W. (William)

This, which is known as “Adab literature,” is anecdotic in style with much quotation of early poetry and proverb.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

The figures in the former position are religious and supernatural, those in the interior historical and anecdotic.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

The naive, picturesque, and anecdotic illustrations of common life, which are so plentiful in Egypt, are almost completely wanting to the art of Chaldæa.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it.

From Little Eyolf by Archer, William