| 单词 | anecdotist |
| 例句 | A man who was continuously firing off adages and axioms would be as terrible an infliction as the inveterate anecdotist or the everlasting pun-producer. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Piersoll, recalling that the anecdotist had killed other salmon in his time, made a hasty adieu and went to his hostess, who lingered in the drawing room with the younger men. Ewing\\'s Lady The ancient anecdotist further says that "the thing was not known until after Plautianus's death." Roman Women "Tell us, tell us! delightful fabulist! valued anecdotist!" cried the friends. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II The anecdotists speak very kindly of his practical jokes. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges His library was probably not a large one, for he had but a few favourite authors, the Latin historians, moralists, and anecdotists, and for mere amusement Terence and Catullus, Boccaccio and Rabelais. Lost Leaders Rattenden was an amusing anecdotist and had amassed a prodigious amount of raw material for his craft. Septimus 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 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 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 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 The anecdotist adds that from that day Wolfe declined in the favour and confidence of the Commander-in-Chief. Lectures and Essays The gifted anecdotist replied with a long laugh, then cried, 'Good-night, young ladies!' and sank peacefully to slumber. The Odd Women An assortment of broadsheet ballads and scrap-books, bought in boyhood, was the nucleus of Scott's library, rich in the works of poets and magicians, of alchemists, and anecdotists. The Library The anecdotist is not so truthful that cardinals need flush a deeper scarlet, like the roses in Bion's "Lament for Adonis," on account of a scandal resting on the authority of Menage. The Library |
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