Both Uses of
anecdote
in
Mansfield Park
- The soup would be sent round in a most spiritless manner, wine drank without any smiles or agreeable trifling, and the venison cut up without supplying one pleasant anecdote of any former haunch, or a single entertaining story, about "my friend such a one."†
Chpt 6 *
- I could not have hoped to entertain you with Irish anecdotes during a ten miles' drive."†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(anecdote) a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point