anecdotic

Example Sentences

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Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it.

From Little Eyolf by Archer, William

It is suggestive of so many pleasant little platitudes about "long ago," with anecdotic memories of poor dear Dick or Harry, that it rarely fails to interest and amuse.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

He was absorbed in the handling of his material, not in the lyric, dramatic, anecdotic, or rhetorical elements.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Neither of the development of national life, nor of the clash of nations, did he really know anything that was not inessential and anecdotic.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold

The style is agreeably anecdotic, and the numerous woodcuts are quaint and graphic.'—Globe.

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by Roberts, W. (William)