In general, he was no joker, no anecdotist, and had but a feeble appreciation of droll sayings or humorous matters of any kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference

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 anecdotist, John Nichols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference

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 remember that an Englishman subsequently a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference

The anecdotist adds that from that day Wolfe declined in the favour and confidence of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

The scene of the prank was not in itself so bad as the stuff which a cunning anecdotist could make out of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

As a historian he takes a low rank; as an abridger he is better, but best of all as a rhetorical anecdotist and painter of character in action.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

He is shepherd, doctor, nurse, comforter, anecdotist and fun-maker to his poor flock; and you wonder they see the burning gateway of their heaven in him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

Whereupon, it being felt that the rabid anecdotist had been sufficiently rebuked, we all went out to help the veterinary look at Adolph for twenty minutes more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference

The pursuit of such identity of incident may the more cheerfully be left to the anecdotist, in that the biographical value of Amelia, is far more than incidental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Fielding A Memoir]

Annals of Tacitus, a true historian, at the period covering the earlier days of the Empress; while Suetonius, bitter as he may be, is little more than an anecdotist.    From Wordnik.com.  [1601] Reference

The anecdotist who doesn't allow me to imagine, who directs me down one specific narrative avenue without deviation, filling in those spaces, becomes a tyrant over my imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superfluities Redux] Reference

He was neither a professional anecdotist, like another famous American talker, Mr. Chauncey Depew, nor a man on the watch for something to disagree with, like Mr. Blaine, nor even, as was his admirable successor, Mr. Phelps, a man of long silences broken by flashes of humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference

His reputation indicated an anecdotist of the table, prevailing in the primitive societies, where the art of conversing does not come by nature, and is exercised in monosyllabic undertones or grunts until the narrator's well-masticated popular anecdote loosens a digestive laughter, and some talk ensues.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

It was for this young Dudley, who resembled a London of the sparrowy roadways and wearisome pavements and blocks of fortress mansions, by chance a water-cart spirting a stale water: or a London of the farewell dinner-parties, where London's professed anecdotist lays the dust with his ten times told: Why was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

That relentless force impelling an anecdotist to slaughter families for the amusement of dinner-tables, was brought home to Henrietta by her prospect of being a victim; and Livia reminding her of the excessive laughter at Rose Mackrell's anecdotes overnight, she bemoaned her having consented to go to those Gardens in mourning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newland's part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Innocence] Reference

If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newland’s part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Book I] Reference

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 remember that an Englishman subsequently a Pasha commanded the coastguard at Dingle in 1856, and then had an encounter with a local Justice of the Peace in which he came off second best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent]

JEH: Miss Hughes is a vivid anecdotist.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Tabloid]

The gifted anecdotist replied with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odd Women] Reference