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
Then followed confusion, through eleven turbulent reigns that the annalist has failed to unravel.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
So late as the seventeenth century the annalist Mac Firbis discovered that many of the inhabitants of Connacht traced their descent to these same Firbolgs.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
By much importunity," says an annalist, Mr. Ranford of Chowan, "in 1712 we prevailed upon Mr. Martin to let him baptize three of his Negroes, two women and a boy.
From The History of the Negro Church by Carter Godwin Woodson
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
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