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

To be a simple annalist who shall bring before us the events of the day, but who creates no perspective along which we may tread to better customs, better men and better times?

From The Nation Behind Prison Bars by Herr, George L. (George Lewis)

This annalist first suggested Varro’s famous derivation of the word Italy, which he deduced from Vitulus.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John

So late as the seventeenth century the annalist Mac Firbis discovered that many of the inhabitants of Connacht traced their descent to these same Firbolgs.

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)

Footnote 16: Nicholas Gentzkow, doctor of law, born December 6, 1502, the son of a shoemaker, according to the annalist Berckmann, and deceased February 24, 1576, was elected burgomaster of Stralsund in 1555.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew