anecdotist
Example Sentences
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He was always being something less or something more: a gossip, an anecdotist or, more often, an essayist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing.
From Time Magazine Archive
An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact.
From Time Magazine Archive
The anecdotist adds that from that day Wolfe declined in the favour and confidence of the Commander-in-Chief.
From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin
Piersoll, recalling that the anecdotist had killed other salmon in his time, made a hasty adieu and went to his hostess, who lingered in the drawing room with the younger men.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon
