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

This was the same Mrs. Butler, formerly Mary Sigourney, whose reminiscences, the late Rev. Dr. Holmes, the learned and persevering annalist, has quoted in his "Memoir of the French Protestants."

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)

He is always worth comparing with the extant English Chronicles; and from 1106 he is an independent annalist, dry but accurate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

After this the pace slackened, and we need no longer cling to the methods of the annalist.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

Then followed confusion, through eleven turbulent reigns that the annalist has failed to unravel.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard