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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

The information, it must be owned, bears the appearance of having been transmitted by some contemporary annalist, whose impartiality may have perhaps been biassed by some of the numerous incitements which operate upon courtiers.

From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells

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

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 John Dunlop

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