annalist

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Nevertheless, it is not for us to guestimate the workload of an annalist of the Floridian ancien regime.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2016

Marlborough's services to England and the cause of European independence in this campaign, recall one mournful feeling to the British annalist.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

Though an annalist, Diceto is careless in his chronology; and the documents which he incorporates, while often important, are selected on no principle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

In 1795, the year of the yellow fever plague, Bernard Hart rendered heroic service, as is testified by a contemporary annalist.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs

Moreover, Crawling Elk is the annalist and story-teller of his tribe.

From The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Garland, Hamlin