anecdotic

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At the same time biographical and anecdotic details please most people, and if they are not allowed to shoulder out criticism altogether, there can be no harm in them.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

Another new work is announced by Dumas, called Byron, in which we are promised the biography, love adventures, journeys, and anecdotic history of the great poet.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it.

From Little Eyolf by Archer, William

"That taste for story-telling—that anecdotic habit—is quite vulgar; nobody does it now."

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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