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For the rest, Asolando is a miscellany of old and new,—bright loose drift from the chance moods of genius, or bits of anecdotic lumber carefully recovered and refurbished, as in prescience of the nearing end.
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
In the Renaissance painters, on the other hand, with their descriptive preoccupations, their literary and anecdotic interests, he could see nothing but vulgarity and muddle.
From Art by Clive Bell
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 Arnold Bennett
Even of anecdotic history very little attaches to it.
From Little Eyolf by William Archer
In discussing catastrophes, the Duke indulges in statements, partly scientific, partly anecdotic, which appear to me to be somewhat misleading.
From Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
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