But besides this anecdotic aspect, the reelection of Uribe is bad news for Chavez. From Wordnik.com. [Random thoughts on Colombia] Reference
The anecdotic history of John Gabriel Borkman is even scantier than that of Little Eyolf. From Wordnik.com. [John Gabriel Borkman] Reference
The old appear in conversation in two characters: the critically silent and the garrulous anecdotic. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
On the anecdotic part, no mean was too small not to be used to discredit the independent universities proposal. From Wordnik.com. [Chavez sets his electoral strategy] Reference
In the reign of Queen Victoria many thousands of trivial anecdotic pictures were bought and sold, were reproduced in Art Annuals and. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
The second class of old people are not anecdotic; they are rather hearers than talkers, listening to the young with an amused and critical attention. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
Not sure which info is more accurate but I am under the strong impresion that Rh- is as important in Africa as it is in West or South Asia, not merely anecdotic. From Wordnik.com. [Neanderthal DNA] Reference
Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it. From Wordnik.com. [Little Eyolf] Reference
The anecdotic life of Herschel, however, is now closed. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference
He was gracefully anecdotic; he allowed one to perceive a fine enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Life] Reference
But these cases today are the exception and tend to become merely anecdotic as time goes by. From Wordnik.com. Reference
(There's no academic appellation in the tax law of "casual seller" -- it's a anecdotic term.). From Wordnik.com. [lipstick.com: celebrity news that matters to you] Reference
But it is not only the anecdotic side of his Dictionary that appeals to the student of English. From Wordnik.com. [On Dictionaries] Reference
But the Royalist Ambassador's wife is incomparably more sparkling and anecdotic than the Puritan. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid.] Reference
Charles Greville present; I thought it wonderful that she could be anecdotic about Miss Edgeworth. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs] Reference
He has had rather an anecdotic history -- gone rather deep into pleasures, I fancy, lazy as he is. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
The usual speech -- reminiscent, anecdotic, prophetic of tremendous triumphs, mildly humorous, pathetic. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890] Reference
These valuable notes commence even with Solomon, though here they are largely mixed with anecdotic chaff. From Wordnik.com. [Prolegomena] Reference
The figures in the former position are religious and supernatural, those in the interior historical and anecdotic. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1] Reference
It is only anecdotic evidence, but at yesterday's Freddie auction, foreign investors also showed renewed buying interest. From Wordnik.com. [FXstreet.com] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
But most of our conversation on that pleasant journey, it must be confessed, was personal and anecdotic -- fish-stories not excluded. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting For Peace] Reference
In discussing catastrophes, the Duke indulges in statements, partly scientific, partly anecdotic, which appear to me to be somewhat misleading. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [My Life as an Author]
He found his friend's wife middle-class, self-absorbed, and artificial, the friend himself donnish, cut and dried, and liable to anecdotic seizures of increasing frequency. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron] Reference
There are of late a small number of persons who collect English heads but not enough to encourage such a work: I hope the anecdotic part will make it more known and tasted. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
In these three manuscripts the painting has an anecdotic character; it is intended to illustrate the text, and sometimes two periods of a scene are represented in a picture. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
A writer of personal or anecdotic history, let the reader turn to. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference
Our extracts are of the anecdotic turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832] Reference
Many noble names have an anecdotic "explanation.". From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Then follows a anecdotic list of interesting. From Wordnik.com. [World of SL] Reference
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