Usage examples (20)

• In general, he was no joker, no anecdotist, and had but a feeble appreciation of droll sayings or humorous matters of any kind.
• This Denbigh ancestry recalls a pleasant example of Fielding's wit, preserved in a story told by his son, and recorded in the pages of that voluminous eighteenth-century...
• Reverting to my reminiscences -- or rather to what are for myself less interesting portions, for I am a land agent by profession and an anecdotist only by habit -- I...
• The anecdotist adds that from that day Wolfe declined in the favour and confidence of the