annalist
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Nevertheless, it is not for us to guestimate the workload of an annalist of the Floridian ancien regime.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2016
To be a simple annalist who shall bring before us the events of the day, but who creates no perspective along which we may tread to better customs, better men and better times?
From The Nation Behind Prison Bars by George L. (George Lewis) Herr
Philochorus was a careful and systematic annalist of the early third century b.c., who used official documents and verified his statements.
From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray
It is also likely that the closing years in Britain were peaceful and quiet, such as do not give the annalist much to record.
From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson
This was the same Mrs. Butler, formerly Mary Sigourney, whose reminiscences, the late Rev. Dr. Holmes, the learned and persevering annalist, has quoted in his "Memoir of the French Protestants."
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
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