anecdotic
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Her importance is thus very great: and it only wanted the proverbial or anecdotic "That!" to make it much greater.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
She made Count d’Orsay familiar, she made Charles Greville present; I thought it wonderful that she could be anecdotic about Miss Edgeworth.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
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
"Comrades," the first play in the present volume, belongs to the same momentous creative period as "The Father" and "Countess Julie," although there is little anecdotic history attaching to this vigorous comedy.
From Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter by Warner Oland
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
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