anecdotic

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"Comrades," the first play in the present volume, belongs to the same momentous creative period as "The Father" and "Countess Julie," although there is little anecdotic history attaching to this vigorous comedy.

From Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter by Oland, Warner

This, which is known as “Adab literature,” is anecdotic in style with much quotation of early poetry and proverb.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

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

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

The success of the plays also brought about an incident famous in French literary history of the anecdotic kind.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George