"The memoirs before us are founded upon the papers and documents which he left behind him at his death, consisting of anecdotic and biographical fragments, accounts of his divers missions and campaigns, and the substance of many extraordinary secrets intrusted to him as a general and a statesman.
"A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee."
Davy Crockett
Her importance is thus very great: and it only wanted the proverbial or anecdotic "That!"
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
The lecturer, as might have been expected, was out even in his facts: for Renoir-who came from the people, by the way-might, were he less of an artist, by means of the taking and almost anecdotic quality of his earlier work, give some pleasure to a working man; whereas Picasso-the son of middle-class parents, too-could not possibly win from an honest labourer, left to himself, anything but sarcastic laughter or ferocious abuse.
"Since Cézanne"
Clive Bell