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  • 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. The Age of Innocence
  • 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 The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • In general, he was no joker, no anecdotist, and had but a feeble appreciation of droll sayings or humorous matters of any kind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
  • 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. V. Book I
  • 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. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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  • 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. Henry Fielding: a Memoir
  • 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. Somewhere in Red Gap
  • 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. Stories of Authors, British and American
  • 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. Henry Fielding: a Memoir
  • 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. Henry Fielding A Memoir

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