anecdotic

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In discussing catastrophes, the Duke indulges in statements, partly scientific, partly anecdotic, which appear to me to be somewhat misleading.

From Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry

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 Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

You see, Julia is like a game of tennis, or a pleasant picture of the anecdotic kind.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth

Molly Ryan, the one sole domestic servant who accompanied the Luttrells, being of an uncommunicative temper, contributed no anecdotic details of in-door life to stimulate interest and keep curiosity alive.

From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Lever, Charles James

But as a novelist he does not seem to me to be of much importance, nor even as a tale-teller, except of the anecdotic kind.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George