How To Use Anecdote In A Sentence

We laugh a lot and he has many anecdotes, funny, funny stories. The Sun
In art, the lure of anecdote always presents serious risks, and a good deal of nineteenth century American art succumbed to that drive to explain and amuse.
He provides clear explanations of complex economic issues, using anecdotes to illustrate each point.
Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
One can think of very few biographers who have the ability to deal with critical assessment of such diversity and unwieldy fusions of anecdote and myth.

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Full of stories and anecdotes that will make your toes curl, it will entertain and amuse you. The Sun
The text forms a patchwork quilt of anecdotes that weave together domesticity and philosophy. The Times Literary Supplement
It is against this backdrop of an already emerging consensus that we must evaluate the famous anecdote retailed by Jefferson about the dinner bargain that set the capital on the Potomac.
An actor ( "Midnight Run" and those dog movies) and natural-born raconteur, he takes over Snyder's CNBC slot with the kind of dryly comic anecdotes he's filled three books with. Late Night Unplugged
To the critics of his approach, Mr Kennedy is in the habit of retelling an involved Scottish anecdote about a whale getting itself beached.
There ain't many jaunty little anecdotes. Times, Sunday Times
In between are 11 pages of useful information, including dry facts and quirky anecdotes, encompassing every area of life.
Some ‘off licence’ indications are substantiated by some evidence, but its efficacy in several other conditions is based on anecdote and observations made in small numbers of patients.
We wrote recently about building a deck, and many readers have responded with questions and anecdotes about deck experiences.
He was a storehouse of anecdotes, too young to detect the whiff of embellishment clinging to them. AMAGANSETT
An interesting anecdote has also been spun into the wonder liquid.
She is frisky and good humoured like a bouncy Labrador, gushing with anecdotes punctuated by a laugh, which is a cross between a joyous cackle and a happy crow.
The explanation of the anecdote's use begins with a return to the rhetoric of travel writing.
Unsurprisingly, Gallo refers everything back to his childhood, mining his youth for anecdotes.
The report that documents their findings includes an appendix with 108 anecdotes by Princeton students of racial or religious harassment or discrimination.
But many of her anecdotes about her early years in broadcasting are revealing, particularly when they suggest how much pyrite the networks served up in what some critics call “the golden age of television.” 2009 January 22 « One-Minute Book Reviews
The report that documents their findings includes an appendix with 108 anecdotes by Princeton students of racial or religious harassment or discrimination.
Always self-deprecating and modest, he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer, remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes.
The book is littered with one-liners and anecdotes that will be familiar to activists on the Left.
Trained as a doorman to national standards, he is teaching the actors restraining techniques and telling clubland anecdotes to familiarise them with a bouncer's world.
Lively conversation and anecdotes will abound as the duo discuss the art of writing for theatre.
And Cargill, now beardless, appeared to enjoy the event, regaling colleagues with a few anecdotes.
He entertained a packed audience at Ilkley Playhouse this week with his routine of hilarious, if not entirely printable, series of anecdotes and stories of English football in the 1950s and 60s.
This is a mix of legal anecdotes, poetry readings, excerpts from his work and whimsical stories from his childhood interspersed with music. Times, Sunday Times
This lends some support to the popular anecdote that subjects with unilateral ankle sprains have a deficit in the sensorimotor system that affects the central processing of motor control.
There are many funny anecdotes crammed in here. Times, Sunday Times
There were no rock star anecdotes or reminiscences about his years in the ‘biz’.
He was telling interesting anecdotes about growing up in the neighborhood and the park.
Then there's the well-funded greenhouse denialist think-tanks on the lookout for any evidence, argument or anecdote that might raise public doubts - legitimate or otherwise - about the growing strength of the scientific consensus.
India was a tour that he had his heart set on ever since he was regaled with anecdotes by his father.
Nikolai Petrovich told various anecdotes about what he called his farming career, talked about the forthcoming government measures, about committees, deputations, the need to introduce new machinery, etc. Fathers and Sons
I am stopped mid-anecdote by an imperious tap on my shoulder.
All we ask is they leave enough time for more than one red chair anecdote. The Sun
But the trouble with anecdotes is that one does not have the full story of what happened, since the teller, with his own umwelt and particular perception, is necessarily restricted in what he sees. INSIDE OF A DOG
The appeal of Resnick's account is enhanced by the lure of Bohemia, which he and Passlof enrich with anecdote and intertwine with aesthetics and social history.
His {565} own anecdote of the old priest who, having the misprint "mumpsimus" for The Age of the Reformation
The rest of the book is filled with such anecdotes turning what could have been quite a dry subject into something real and gripping.
The story was based on an anecdote - a true incident that I had heard from Professor B. Buchshtab.
A spectacular Leonid storm in 1833 generated further anecdotes of meteors that swished, whooshed, or, in one case, ‘resembled the noise of a child's popgun.’
The narrative was interlaced with anecdotes.
As a book it has useful anecdotes, but is otherwise nothing to get excited about.
And it includes personal anecdotes and photographs from her family album which make it all the more interesting. The Sun
My guideline is that if you have scientific fact pitted against anecdotes and information that has been proven wrong time and again then weed the latter. One step beyond… « Awful Library Books
But there is one anecdote that really stuck. Times, Sunday Times
His current tour sees a near-perfect mix of personal anecdotes, observational comedy and sly wit. Times, Sunday Times
After last night, we really didn't need to be regaled with other upchuck anecdotes.
In contrasting their ritual presence to the differance of purposive endeavor, Wordsworth seems to hearken back to an anecdote in Boswell's Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
The owner, who looks like a playboy footballer, keeps guests entertained with a succession of anecdotes, culinary disquisitions and impromptu bursts of song.
The book criticies the graphomania, singers like Azis and Ivana, Gergana and anecdote because of their cynism. Mayor visits opening of book
‘I realised immediately that this was going to be a profound anecdote, and I've been dining out on it since,’ he purrs, with typical blitheness.
The evidence that supports this theory is hearsay anecdotes going back thousands of years.
Celebrities were wheeled out, and they'd just stand there and tell anecdotes.
China, would for ever fix their literature — poetry, history and criticism,230 the apologue and the anecdote. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
There are areas within the report that we believe are based on untested and unreliable individual anecdotes.
All we ask is they leave enough time for more than one red chair anecdote. The Sun
I played Bagpipes in two separate pipe bands in Dublin - anecdote: in school, a music teacher was evaluating our playing of the tin whistle, and when he came to me, he saw immediately from the way I was holding it that I had training in a "pipe" instrument (uillean pipes and bag pipes are fingered similarly). Irish Blogs
He seasoned his lecture with pleasant anecdotes.
Kristian Matsson has been avalanched with Bob Dylan comparisons, but his anecdotes and omnipresent observations of the natural world have more in common with the Joni Mitchell of "River. S.X. Rosenstock: The Tallest Man on Earth: New Folk Grows Numinous
He wrote it down in his commonplace book because that was where he stored anecdotes on specifically ethical and political topics. The Times Literary Supplement
And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Is that one of the anecdotes from the book, I ask her? The Autobiography of Mister Litlove « Tales from the Reading Room
If this is part of the reason the anecdote raises a smile, comedy would seem to be functioning here at its moral, corrective level, scuffing the shine on vanity and entrapping the diabolical self.
But a more intimate sense of Mr. Dallaire comes from a personal anecdote in "They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children," where he reflects on his Canadian childhood and on the ways in which boys, even before reaching adolescence, can become acutely aware of tribal allegiances and enmities. Young And Dangerous
There is satire, particularly in the rather tedious Book II, but there is also all the wit, anecdote and engaging thought of good conversation.
R.D. Hicks), tells the following anecdote about Socrates and his wife Xanthippe, which is also preserved in other ancient authors: Laudator Temporis Acti
To supply, to some extent, this lacuna in our popular literature has been the object of the present work, in which, it is hoped, may be found much curious and interesting physiological information, interspersed with _recherché_ and festivous anecdotes. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
Along the way, he provided intimate, previously unrevealed anecdotes that illuminate the ups and downs of his life on and off the golf course.
The retailer of the anecdote intends it to impart a message, the success of which depends on the degree to which the hearer regards the anecdote as factual.
That is practically what Michelet did, and though the garrulous old gossip drivelled endlessly about matters of supreme unimportance and ecstasized in his mild way over trivial anecdotes which he expanded beyond all proportion, and though his sentimentality and chauvinism sometimes discredited his quite plausible conjectures, he was nevertheless the only French historian who had overcome the limitation of time and made another age live anew before our eyes. Là-bas
A fabliau is a brief tale, often little more than an anecdote, with a sharp sting at the end of it; frequently it was in rime; generally satiric in intent, it was full of frank gayety and of playful humor. Introduction
We have purposely omitted cobwebbed bottles, the patron in his white cap bustling among his sauces, anecdotes about charming little restaurants with gleaming napery, and so forth.
It's a central anecdote of the story, which is chock-full of instances of Rogers getting things done and making himself indispensable to big machers such as Gergen and James Baker in Washington, or Jon Corzine, Paulson and Blankfein at Goldman. Yvette Kantrow: The Chair Man
An anecdote may serve to point up the intensity of this enterprise loyalty in Japan.
3 The form or ‘factitiousness’ of the anecdote provides the shape and the subjectivity of the account.
So astonishing are the anecdotes, so bizarre the characters, that eventually the reader has to suspend a truckload of disbelief.
It comes from a lot of different personal experiences and anecdotes that people have told me. The Sun
These days he's mostly an editor of anthologies, and I have spent too long driving him mad by forgetting to sign contracts or write amusing bios and anecdotes for him, for his books.
You may even be able to squeeze out a few more wacky anecdotes from that slightly dysfunctional family of yours.
He points out some obvious arguments, it's the parents fault for not supervising their kids, his anecdotes are fictional, they are only words after all.
He always held the audience captive, as much by his hilarious anecdotes as by his virtuoso musical powers. Times, Sunday Times
We embark on a seemingly endless series of gently satirical observations and anecdotes about the zany world of activism. Times, Sunday Times
Such anecdotes illuminate the dry facts and dates in which the past was formerly embalmed.
As you turn the pages of this book you can almost hear his distinctive voice, chuckling over the anecdotes. Times, Sunday Times
Many of us hold the belief that the true value of an education in the humanities can be measured by the anecdotes it yields over dinner.
The book is full of short, interesting anecdotes which capture a moment in time.
It is one of the great, heart-rending anecdotes of musical history, but one cannot help wondering if Janacek's ability to go on composing while she expired shows only a profound emotional disengagement.
Herring begins a tour of typically questioning jokes and anecdotes about love. Times, Sunday Times
In her abstracted mood Huston's Gretta attends only slightly to Gabriel's anecdote, and there is nothing equivalent to the erotic rebuff that Joyce presented as transitional to the last epiphany.
Very little of this material repeats the footage used in the program, and it's a pleasure to get to listen to these actresses offer more reminiscences, commentary, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes.
Now he has been convicted, the anecdotes and personal testimonies stream out, so that reading the papers the following day felt pornographically squalid and terrifying.
In the main it is a catalogue of racily written anecdotes that describe the most notorious of the North's drug godfathers.
His writing is a joy, combining the telling quote from finance megastars with anecdote to illustrate a substantial point.
Sterne’s incontinuity of narration, the purposeful irrelation of parts, the use of anecdote and episode, which to the stumbling reader reduce his books to collections of disconnected essays and instances, gave to Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century
I imagined that at the end I'd have bags of information, anecdotes and observations.
His writing is a joy, combining the telling quote from finance megastars with anecdote to illustrate a substantial point.
For all its pretty pictures and quirky anecdotes, this is a soulless book.
And it includes personal anecdotes and photographs from her family album which make it all the more interesting. The Sun
With people of a particular profession, or of a distinguished eminency in any branch of learning, one is not at a loss; but with those, whether men or women, who properly constitute what is called the beau monde, one must not choose deep subjects, nor hope to get any knowledge above that of orders, ranks, families, and court anecdotes; which are therefore the proper (and not altogether useless) subjects of that kind of conversation. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
I will endeavor to stay in touch on a regular basis, and regale you with amusing anecdotes of our experiences to date.
Davidson's book also sent me to my battered copy of David Arora's Mushrooms Demystified -- the one book you must have if you want to hunt mushrooms-- for this anecdote by the Victorian memoirist Gwen Raverat about the smelly, phallic, stinkhorn mushroom. "Because of the morals of the maids"...
One can only surmise at the extent of their co-operation from the odd anecdote, and from influences scholars have detected in the texts themselves. The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
If a speaker does use humor in a speech, make certain the story, anecdote or joke is surefire funny with all listeners.
Herring begins a tour of typically questioning jokes and anecdotes about love. Times, Sunday Times
The story also conjures up several anecdotes that will be appreciated by Brit-pop aficionados.
Think of your funniest anecdote about being at work. The Sun
Ethical implications aside, his lectures were generously garnished with anecdotes that held his wide-eyed freshmen audience in rapt attention. Is Yawning Uncontrollable and Contagious? | Impact Lab
Tune in for this and more amusing anecdotes. Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, this slim volume is full of snapshots from the frontier of pain: unsentimental observations, anecdotes and cries of anguish.
He has read the Hindu mystics extensively, and delightedly recounts anecdotes about a southern Maharishi, Ramana, whose life has influenced him.
The use of such unsourced, eye-catching anecdotes is rare.
Ms. Rath here is regaling us with the most delightful anecdotes.
Neill refuses to wonder but instead conducts an anatomy of the anecdote's historical conditions through the opening.
The text forms a patchwork quilt of anecdotes that weave together domesticity and philosophy. The Times Literary Supplement
The Histories and historical anecdotes, analects, and acroamata, in which the names, when not used achronistically by the editor or copier, give unerring data for the earliest date à quo and which, by the mode of treatment, suggest the latest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The book is also full of name-dropping (notably of rather unnotable people) and worst of all - she tries to have it both ways - revelling in scandalous anecdotes yet claiming she remained ‘above it all’.
The braggart Anecdotes that bolster self-image reveal a great deal to you about the speaker.
Bruce was a lively and fascinating speaker, with a huge fund of anecdotes and recondite facts.
Icahn plans to "[offer] up anecdotes and a running commentary on what he describes as the desultory state of corporate governance in America. Dealbreaker
His anecdotes and aperçus are to the point.
In the introduction, Fergusson begins with a striking anecdote that reveals how highly Brown was esteemed by his fellow poets.
Rife with wit, anecdotes galore, and entertaining wordplay, this audiobook is a must for lovers of the English language. The Meaning of Everything: Summary and book reviews of The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester.
I am glad you have connected your negotiations and anecdotes; and, I hope, not with your usual laconism. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
This trend can be seen in letters, memoirs, diaries, regimental histories, anecdotes, reminiscences, and interviews by combat veterans during and after the war.
Love Luminary Allison Stillman, a talented aromatherapist and author, told me the following anecdote about what life is like when you listen to your heart: Love For No Reason
Wim created a similar vibe as a speaker, meandering through anecdotes, sharing philosophies, listening to and acknowledging other people in the room.
Though it is an amusing anecdote, this detail touches on a small but potentially crucial peculiarity in the current international emergency.
Burns's handmade tableaux - in style and use of narrative anecdote - are similar to the work of fellow Houstonian, Bill Davenport.
The reader's apprehension of the point of another anecdote, in which Dr. Neumann appears in an attitude not very respectful to his own sovereign, Louis II of Bavaria, will depend upon his knowing something of the situation and history of the university buildings in Munich. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
In language presentation and practice there should be a story of some kind or a series of anecdotes or incidents.
This mixture of practical tips and amusing anecdotes is the perfect addition to any kitchen. Times, Sunday Times
One anecdote from last week neatly sums up Labour's uncertainty over how to deal with the new Tory leader.
The book criticies the graphomania, singers like Azis and Ivana, Gergana and anecdote because of their cynism. Mayor visits opening of book
His opinions of French, English, Irish, and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family, in a diligence or stage-coach. English Traits (1856)
And even these are not allowed to pall upon the mental palate, being mingled with anecdotes and short tales, such as the Hermits (iii. 125), with biographical or literary episodes, acroamata, table-talk and analects where humorous Rabelaisian anecdote finds a place; in fact the fabliau or novella. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She was trying not to listen as Mrs Mitchels started on some anecdote - one she told every time - about eating mangetout in November.
The guest speaker was Graham Walton, the father of the only girl sextuplets in the world, who proved an entertaining speaker, regaling the audience with anecdotes about life as the only male in a family of seven women.
One wishes one of her many friends and admirers had advised her not to make her autobiography sound like a list of testimonials from famous people interspersed with anecdotes.
His writing is a joy, combining the telling quote from finance megastars with anecdote to illustrate a substantial point.
Because earlier travel narratives had used this anecdote, later writers felt compelled to include it, not because it was true, but because confuting it might bring one's own veracity into question.
The result is an outstandingly evocative portrait of a key moment in our recent history, and a treasure trove of anecdotes. Times, Sunday Times
He enters upon long digressions, and his illustrative anecdotes expand into separate episodes.
(And no, you won’t get points taking off for disagreeing: p) You might find the “notes from class” tag to be most interesting, as it contains anecdotes from my own time in intergroup dialogue. Facebook paranoia. « Love | Peace | Ohana
The second series in vol. ix., consisting of eight fables, not including ten anecdotes The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
We spurn from us with disgust and indignation the slanders of those who bring us their anecdotes with the attestation of the flower-de-luce on their shoulder. Paras. 125-149
When the audience calls something out it sets me off on another anecdote. Times, Sunday Times
He was so full of gossip about what really goes on behind the scenes in politics that we could barely tear ourselves away from his glorious, indelicate anecdotes.
Consistent testing Implicit in the anecdote about the sore head was the need to test the utterance.
Lisa and I were treated to an audience with Lorraine's parents, who regaled us with anecdotes about cheating men and the failure of long distance relationships.
Two anecdotes about Cato illustrate his stance.Sentencedict
Is there anything more cringeworthy than a series of unfunny childhood anecdotes and blatant sexual references strung together in a monotone drawl?
Say what you love about the product or give a personal anecdote about it. The Sun
It's a myth that seems to have been passed by anecdote and folklore. Times, Sunday Times
He obviously has great love for the apes and monkeys he's known, and his pictures and anecdotes invite the reader to feel, rightly, that primates are members of our own extended family.
He was widely known for his warmth, generosity, and modesty, and for his fund of humorous and interesting anecdotes.
One more tiny anecdote that proves that being the deliverer is much better than being the onlooker – when my first grandchild was born, I got to be in the delivery room. Oh, Hai, Person With The Childbirth Horror Videos? DO NOT SHOW ME THEM | Her Bad Mother
If we could keep to addressing the issues rather than dealing in personalities and anecdote, we probably stand a better chance of not getting moved to the Conversation, literally or metaphorically.
Whereas the largest are fairly well researched, knowledge of the fisher, wolverine, river otter, mink, lynx, bobcat, and raccoon is almost entirely from anecdote.
Lively conversation and anecdotes will abound as the duo discuss the art of writing for theatre.
No doubt the details of this anecdote were embellished.
It's like being ambushed by a rugby tragic who can recite meaningless statistics and All Blacks anecdotes with all the subtlety of a rolling maul.
While the book makes for fascinating cocktail chatter, critics say the anecdotes don't support any larger theory. Still, it's a brainy airport buy that few readers second-guess.
The only obvious weakness of these essays is that some of the conclusions rest on fairly slender numbers of cases or anecdotes.
The wealth of evidence and anecdote means that the pages fly by. Times, Sunday Times
It seems one of my election anecdotes graced the airwaves of Radio 4's Newsquiz yesterday.
Spice up pub nights with your anecdotes, amaze friends and family with facts from your lectures, and expand the ranks of the mildly curious.
A pupil of Domenichino, he was most in sympathy with classical art, but he also appreciated the Baroque, and enriched his narratives with anecdote and vivid detail.
In a lesser writer such use of anecdote could give way to whimsy, presenting quirky characters as allegory, tailoring encounters to fit a preconceived moral philosophy. Times, Sunday Times
The novel is packed with incident and anecdote and although mainly realist in style borrows some of the familiar techniques of Garcia Marquez's magic realism.
They made him watch a parody of his debating style from television's Saturday Night Live. They abjured him to avoid anecdotes where he might misstep.
Chapters often start with a personal anecdote - such as a chess game in a banya. The Times Literary Supplement
But with the exception of a visit to New York in September 2001, this book is just a series of anecdotes about caravans, blocked toilets, petty rows and minor misdemeanours in her car.
His good-natured humour and seemingly limitless fund of anecdotes was much admired by other barristers and by the Bench. Times, Sunday Times
Often the anecdotes he has culled from various sources seen contradictory.
Such personal anecdotes are sprinkled throughout the book.
These anecdotes are, perhaps, what judges would call obiter dicta, yet the coroner's court has more than once been utilized as a field in the actual preparation of a criminal case. Courts and Criminals
(I should have prefaced this anecdote by saying, for the benefit of those readers who have never been in Paris, that the entresol is a low story just over the shops, and that the Rue de Rivoli is one of the noisiest streets in the city.) -- "But Feuillet has leased the third and fourth floors: why don't you receive up there?" responded the visitor. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
The story also is an example of how kernels of truth are often contained in jokes or humorous anecdotes.
I don't know what "antidotal" facts are, but a factual record in a court is more systematic than an anecdote. When divas attack, Part 2.
His opinions of French, English, Irish, and Scotch seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family, in a diligence or stagecoach. XVII. English Traits. Personal
The moralizing is given all the force which an accomplished rhetorician can provide and is enlivened by anecdote, hyperbole, and vigorous denunciation.
He seasoned his lecture with pleasant anecdotes.
He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air… The Haunted
Kristian Matsson has been avalanched with Bob Dylan comparisons, but his anecdotes and omnipresent observations of the natural world have more in common with the Joni Mitchell of S.X. Rosenstock: The Tallest Man on Earth: New Folk Grows Numinous
I think this anecdote provides a good example of the limitations confronting a contemporary labour historian who is trying to provide the most honest, accurate account possible.
So the vile and useless pop culture anecdotes will continue unabated.
The article lacks any real data to support its claims; and the author generalizes her anecdote into a statement about all women (and men). Stop Stereotyping Female Entrepreneurs
It is my present intention to blend the account of your brother's early life, published in the stereotype edition, with certain historical memoranda which he has left in considerable abundance, together with his correspondence, and such authentic anecdotes as I can collect among his friends and acquaintance, into a Biographical Sketch, and perhaps leave the composition and style to some abler pen. Letter 388
The letters section offers a feast of anecdotes about Mozart.
With publication, anecdotes became more polished, the characters less distinctive and stereotypical, the prevailing tone patronising and prosy.
The report that documents their findings includes an appendix with 108 anecdotes by Princeton students of racial or religious harassment or discrimination.
This copiously researched, anecdote-filled book is one of the best.
His personal and congregational anecdotes weave a significant story of appropriate, evaluated use of technology.
Confidence is unshaken; -- for, on December 30_th_, _Sunday_, Captain de Camp is reported a "glorious oriental brick," -- he having kindly prescribed all sorts of good things for his invalid friend, without the slightest regard to expense; and, moreover, broken Brown's quinsy by administering an extraordinary anecdote, or "crammer," that scarcely any one could Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season.
There are no cheesy anecdotes or schmaltzy tributes to the place in which he is playing.
This does not mean simply telling personal anecdotes and stories. Christianity Today

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