anecdotic

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The figures in the former position are religious and supernatural, those in the interior historical and anecdotic.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

Accordingly, at each opportunity, with seeming innocence, I "wiped his eye," as they say at a battue, and certainly reaped the anecdotic "kudos" Mr. So-and-so had cunningly contrived and hoped to achieve for himself.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

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)

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

Mount Dalton and its doings were an anecdotic mine, of which they had never explored a single "shaft."

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James