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Definition of Anecdotes
1. anecdote [n] - See also: anecdote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anecdotes
Literary usage of Anecdotes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"Brantome, as a nobleman and an experienced campaigner, was thoroughly familiar
with the society to which most of his anecdotes refer. ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"The anecdotes that follow throw such additional sidelights on character, social
life, and political conditions in the South as could hardly be expected from ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1820)
"anecdotes The revolution of human affairs had produced in Apulia and Calabria,
a melancholy contrast between the age of Pythagoras and the tenth century of ..."
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