anecdotic
Example Sentences
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He was absorbed in the handling of his material, not in the lyric, dramatic, anecdotic, or rhetorical elements.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
Mount Dalton and its doings were an anecdotic mine, of which they had never explored a single "shaft."
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
"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
The usual speech—reminiscent, anecdotic, prophetic of tremendous triumphs, mildly humorous, pathetic.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
The anecdotic life of Herschel, however, is now closed.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
