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  • His mother has an endless store of meteorological anecdotes: ball lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes.†   (source)
  • Anecdotes†   (source)
  • He grinned and on the way home regaled her with anecdotes of teaching life.†   (source)
  • For every anecdote I remember, Brad remembers two more.†   (source)
  • After he completed his anecdotes, Mayor Schmoke ended our meeting.†   (source)
  • Most times the stones were little more than anecdotes, short of breath and short of life.†   (source)
  • The afternoon wore on with more anecdotes about illustrious wizards Slughorn had taught, all of whom had been delighted to join what he called the "Slug Club" at Hogwarts.†   (source)
  • Every now and then Patrick and Guenther would grab a few beers together, consuming enough alcohol for the former bodybuilder to tell him stories of women offering to oil him up before a competition or good anecdotes about Arnold, before he became political.†   (source)
  • The effect of one of Leon's anecdotes was to make his listener warm to humankind and its failings.†   (source)
  • I guess I thought my father had told him one of the embarrassing anecdotes he saw merely as loving testaments to his children.†   (source)
  • He was known for anecdotes, and parables from Syria, quotations from the Qur'an, stories from his travels around the world.†   (source)
  • Chrissie eagerly took up the subject and soon both veterans were coming out with anecdotes about all the hilarious things Martin had got up to.†   (source)
  • Impatiently, I tried to beat back an anecdote Toddy Barbour had told at dinner — how, upon losing his passport (in Italy?†   (source)
  • I don't tell you enough, but I am amazed by your mind: the weird statistics and anecdotes, the strange facts, the disturbing ability to quote from any movie, the quick wit, the beautiful way you have of wording things.†   (source)
  • The anecdote amuses him.†   (source)
  • Anecdotes abound: one of the famous oil painters whom King Billy supports finds His Majesty walking head down, hands clasped behind him, one foot on the garden path and one in the mud, obviously lost in thought.†   (source)
  • Actually, I think I prefer that it be apocryphal, since made-up anecdotes have their own kind of truth.†   (source)
  • He liked humorous anecdotes that turned into morality tales.†   (source)
  • This was a confidential portion of the chat, a little anecdote between the two men.†   (source)
  • He had anecdotes, too, cautionary tales for the blacked-out drinker: There was a guy in New Jersey who got drunk at a fourth of July party.†   (source)
  • In all gatherings he at once became the center of attraction, having a ready command of language and a constant fund of amusing anecdotes and experiences.†   (source)
  • Their leader was Ian Woodall, thirty-nine, a loquaCious, mouselike man who relished telling anecdotes about his brave exploits as a military commando behind enemy lines during South Africa's long, brutal conflict with Angola in the 1980s.†   (source)
  • What you will conclude from the next anecdote I cannot guess.†   (source)
  • Orik shrugged and provided a few anecdotes from their stay in Ellesmera, though Eragon suspected that the dwarf kept his true observations a secret for his king.†   (source)
  • All her life she would remember the afternoons spent in the company of her mother in the sewing room, where Nivea sewed clothing for the poor on her machine and told stories and anecdotes about the family.†   (source)
  • Still, now that he was finished with his research—other than possibly finding anecdotes in some of the diaries, which he hadn't finished going through yet—he wasn't sure what to do next.†   (source)
  • He had a great many notebooks, all of them filled with trees and houses and monsters and entirely cryptic anecdotes.†   (source)
  • Viewed from the right, it shows the letters QSC and V. The museum does not have a life-size, Audio-Animatronic version of McDonald's founder telling jokes and anecdotes.†   (source)
  • First, it was a familiar phrase, familiar to me as a child listening to adults; to black women conversing with one another, telling a story, an anecdote, gossip about some one or event within the circle, the family, the neighborhood.†   (source)
  • He told the amazing historical anecdote of Seth's father, Cleon, hiring Lucien's grandfather Robert E. Lee Wilbanks to handle a land dispute in 1928.†   (source)
  • His name becomes a fleeting statistic and his face is lost in fading photographs, the clothing quaint, the anecdotes gone.†   (source)
  • It was the anecdote of the amputation, together with his picture in the frontispiece, his fingers—all nine of them—forming a steeple in front of his chin, which had made the book so successful.†   (source)
  • The anecdote elevated Dick's opinion of Little Perry; he began to see more of him, and, like Willie-Jay, though for dissimilar reasons, gradually decided that Perry possessed unusual and valuable qualities.†   (source)
  • The economist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and devout critic of George W. Bush, bemoaned this fact as the President's reelection campaign got under way in early 2004: "The approved story line about Mr. Bush is that he's a bluff, honest, plainspoken guy, and anecdotes that fit that story get reported.†   (source)
  • This was a book written by an author who was both pedagogical and able to entertain the reader with anecdotes and astonishing problems.†   (source)
  • Dear Christina, ...I hope this will help you outside understand the feelings of an educated Afghan female who must now live under a burqa.... For two pages the letter described Marri's background and various anecdotes of life before and after the Taliban, ending with, Life here is very miserable.†   (source)
  • A virgin audience like Colonel Scheisskopf was grist for General Peckem's mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open his whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apophthegms, bon mots and other pungent sayings.†   (source)
  • But any thought that the interview presaged an overall cordial welcome for the new minister was dashed soon enough by the London press, which dismissed the meeting as nothing more than a curious anecdote for future historians.†   (source)
  • Because let's face it, he's probably not asking me for my sparkling wit and entertaining anecdotes.†   (source)
  • But at the same time, there is a wealth of anecdote handed down over the years, and from this I've borrowed heavily: the role of flea-ridden cloth as the possible plague vector; the greedy grave digger who buried a man alive; the prescient cockerel who knew when it was safe to come home.†   (source)
  • When he shared an anecdote about a fox-faced kitsune in a Khoreshi opium den, David raised an eyebrow.†   (source)
  • That was it...no anecdotes, no gossip, no right and wrong.†   (source)
  • Another anecdote involves a shift in the vowel in the word slaves to the vowel in leave.†   (source)
  • An off-color anecdote, a laugh in the wrong place.†   (source)
  • Certainly you must be out of anecdotes.†   (source)
  • In the heart of this 250-year-old fort we will trade anecdotes and faint memories, trying to swell them with the order of dates and asides, interlocking them all as if assembling the hull of a ship.†   (source)
  • Let me tell you an interesting anecdote, Mr. McLean, and see what you think.†   (source)
  • I did not put aside my sloth for the sake of a few amusing anecdotes.†   (source)
  • A little anecdote I sent in regarding a vacation that my wife and I took in Quebec.†   (source)
  • It's the eternal recurrence of the anecdote.†   (source)
  • Moira became, over the years, increasingly versed in such anecdotes.†   (source)
  • PERHAPS YOU'VE HEARD THE ANECDOTE about Sigmund Freud.†   (source)
  • It will be a tiny, odd fact about him, an anecdote, perhaps, for a future dinner party.†   (source)
  • It's best not to become an anecdote: who'd take a cab, around here?†   (source)
  • He was quite amusing, and gave us anecdotes of his life.†   (source)
  • He is followed by Henry Kissinger, who tells some foreign policy anecdotes.†   (source)
  • People made up jokes and anecdotes about him that were the talk of the town.†   (source)
  • He was an inexhaustible source of anecdotes.†   (source)
  • They spoke of Europe, of books, of anecdotes from Blanca's family, or of Jean's voyages.†   (source)
  • She could offer no anecdotes.†   (source)
  • But it's only in retrospect—through anecdotes we've heard from her friends, and through notes and letters we've come across since her death—that we have begun to realize the depth of her innermost thoughts.†   (source)
  • After a while, without taking her gaze off him, Ruth started on a rambling anecdote about someone or other, a donor at her centre, someone we'd never heard of, and all the time she kept looking at Tommy, the gentle smile never leaving her face.†   (source)
  • Hermione had not cracked a smile during this anecdote, and now turned an expression of wintry disapproval upon Harry.†   (source)
  • But just as the young lieutenant is about to tell his first anecdote, the doors to the kitchen open and three footmen appear bearing platters.†   (source)
  • He was only too pleased to be diverted by the hilarious anecdotes his father's comrade related about his five-year-old grandson, Rudi.†   (source)
  • We hoped to be able to trace and locate the descendants of the hypothetical occupants, whom we hoped might lead us to other material: diaries, perhaps, or even family anecdotes passed down through the generations.†   (source)
  • Like her, he confined his letters to the daily round, interrupted by the funny or alarming anecdote: the recruit who came on parade with a boot missing; the sheep that ran amok in the barracks and could not be chased out, the sergeant instructor almost hit by a bullet on the range.†   (source)
  • Thus, the merchant who gambles away his savings will hold on to his finer suits until they fray, and tell anecdotes from the halls of the private clubs where his membership has long since lapsed.†   (source)
  • For years they've bombarded me with letters, wanting Laura's own letters — wanting manuscripts, mementoes, interviews, anecdotes — all the grisly details.†   (source)
  • Perhaps because I was getting bored by her anecdote, perhaps because I wanted to help Tommy out, I interrupted after a minute or so, saying: "Yeah, okay, we don't need to hear every last thing about her."†   (source)
  • The veterans were never slow coming out with funny anecdotes about characters they'd met on trips to the White Mansion or to Poplar Farm; but they hardly ever mentioned students who, right up until just before we'd arrived, must have been their intimate friends.†   (source)
  • Already I was becoming a string of adjectives in her head — a string of funny anecdotes she would retail to her chums, the Billies and Bobbies and Charlies.†   (source)
  • No, my sin was a small one in the grand scheme of things, an incident that under different circumstances might have been the subject of a humorous anecdote in later years.†   (source)
  • Corinthians listened analytically, expectantly—wondering how her mother would develop this anecdote into a situation in which Macon would either lash out at her verbally or hit her.†   (source)
  • An anecdote: One time a recruit was watching him bone and wax those golden boots, and he held one up to the recruit and said, 'If you look in there deeply enough, you'll see Adam and Eve.'†   (source)
  • As I say, at Darlington Hall too, many a visiting employee would bring the latest tales of Mr Neighbours' achievements, so that I and the likes of Mr Graham would have to share the frustrating experience of hearing anecdote after anecdote relating to him.†   (source)
  • That's an interesting observation in view of the following anecdote' about a Princeton student published in The New Yorker: "Her roommate, Jacqui Neiss, talks about using her looks to get what she wants, 'Like last night I'm desperately out of cigarettes, running around, and I'm like, "Hi, random guy, can you give me a cigarette?"†   (source)
  • My partners and I own the building where we keep our law offices, and though I wish there was an interesting anecdote concerning its past, there really isn't one.†   (source)
  • Slight as it was, this deformity explained for her many things that would have been otherwise incomprehensible: why she alone of all the children had no nickname; why there were no funny jokes and anecdotes about funny things she had done; why no one ever remarked on her food preferences—no saving of the wing or neck for her—no cooking of the peas in a separate pot without rice because she did not like rice; why nobody teased her; why she never felt at home anywhere, or that she belonged anyplace.†   (source)
  • But he was not isolated, there were people to talk to, a plentiful turnover of drunkards, forgers, wife-beaters, and Mexican vagrants; and Dick, with his light-hearted "con-man" patter, his sex anecdotes and gamy jokes, was popular with the inmates (though there was one who had no use for him whatever-an old man who hissed at him: "Killer!†   (source)
  • We could dispense with the family histories, the humorous anecdotes from our childhoods, the questions of what we did for a living and whether or not our goals were compatible.†   (source)
  • Keep up the circulation of his blood for years to come, and excite aphorism and anecdotes and dreams for the instruction and amusements by the action of his brain upon his mind.†   (source)
  • The executive right beside me suddenly awoke in the middle of a long anecdote about how the Mongol invasion had affected the Russian character in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • An animatronic effigy waves its hands and rolls its eyes as it tells some of the folksy anecdotes Johnson would use to underline political points.†   (source)
  • And most frustrating of all would be having to witness at the conclusion of each such anecdote otherwise decent employees shaking their heads in wonder and uttering phrases like: "That Mr Neighbours, he really is the best."†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the General, having no idea of my father's feelings, took full opportunity to relate anecdotes of his military accomplishments — as of course many military gentlemen are wont to do to their valets in the privacy of their rooms.†   (source)
  • On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation, only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like: "Pardon me, gentlemen, but there's something that's been greatly puzzling me," so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis' jovial anecdotes.†   (source)
  • While he washed his hands and showed Nicolas how to wash his too, he tried to distract her with the anecdote about the Spanish ghost that had appeared to Clara during one of the Friday-evening sessions, bringing word of a treasure buried in the foundations of the house; and he told her about his family: a collection of eccentric lunatics for several generations, whom even ghosts made fun of.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, in the intimacy of their bedroom, Blanca told her anecdotes about him and taught her his songs, warning her not to hum them in the house.†   (source)
  • For the first time in his life, he managed to link those didactic anecdotes with a reality he could see.†   (source)
  • Alba tried to obey her grandmother, but as soon as she began to take notes with her mind, the doghouse filled with all the characters of her story, who rushed in, shoved each other out of the way to wrap her in their anecdotes, their vices, and their virtues, trampled on her intention to compose a documentary, and threw her testimony to the floor, pressing, insisting, and egging her on.†   (source)
  • They told each other stories, read the magic books from the enchanted trunks, consulted family portraits, told anecdotes about uncles who let fly great amounts of wind, and others, blind, who fell like gargoyles from poplar trees; they went out to look at the cordillera and count the clouds, and spoke in a made-up language with no t's and with r's instead of l's, so that they sounded just like the man in the Chinese laundry.†   (source)
  • Then Ferula drew her out of bed with a mother's gentle caresses, telling her the good news from the morning paper, which was less every day, so that she was forced to fill the gaps with gossip about the neighbors, domestic trivia, and made-up anecdotes that Clara found very lovely and forgot within five minutes; thus Ferula could tell the same ones over and over and Clara always enjoyed herself just as if it were the first time she was hearing them.†   (source)
  • His identification with Wolfe was so complete that it was as if he were the writer's alter ego—and this was excruciating to me, since like countless young men of my generation I had gone through the throes of Wolfe-worship, and I would have given all I had to spend a chummy, relaxed evening with a man like the Weasel, pumping him for fresh new anecdotes about the master, voicing phrases like "God, sir, that's priceless!" at some marvelous yarn about the adored giant and his quirks and escapades and his three-ton manuscript.†   (source)
  • Bar's interest in apples was so overtopped by the wrapt suspense in which he pursued the changes of these pears, from the moment when Lord Decimus solemnly opened with 'Your mentioning pears recalls to my remembrance a pear-tree,' down to the rich conclusion, 'And so we pass, through the various changes of life, from Eton pears to Parliamentary pairs,' that he had to go down-stairs with Lord Decimus, and even then to be seated next to him at table in order that he might hear the anecdote out.†   (source)
    anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
  • I really don't know why I bored you with this trivial anecdote.†   (source)
  • Then the talk had been less of me than of the houses, anecdotes of their owners.†   (source)
  • "I can't help feeling," he said at length, "that it's a pity to make a mere anecdote of it.†   (source)
  • Nor shall we find her in collection of anecdotes.†   (source)
  • The infancies abound in anecdotes of precocious strength, cleverness, and wisdom.†   (source)
  • They had been watching the two of them down there from the day when Brown went to work: Christmas jabbing his shovel into the sawdust slowly and steadily and hard, as though he were chopping up a buried snake ("or a man," Mooney said) and Brown leaning on his shovel while he apparently told Christmas a story, an anecdote.†   (source)
  • Thus, as one bright anecdote succeeded, or suggested, a half-dozen others, they smiled dutifully, with attentive respect, below the lifted barrier of his bristly white mustache, into the gleaming rhyme of his false teeth.†   (source)
  • Hours he would spend thus, with his pipe, of an evening, thinking up and down and in and out of the old familiar lanes and commons, which were all stuck about with the history of that campaign there, the life of this statesman here, with poems and with anecdotes, with figures too, this thinker, that soldier; all very brisk and clear; but at length the lane, the field, the common, the fruitful nut-tree and the flowering hedge led him on to that further turn of the road where he dismounted always, tied his horse to a tree, and proceeded on foot alone.†   (source)
  • There was nothing to do except to offer second helpings, which Ector would accept without interrupting the anecdote of the moment.†   (source)
  • 54 The difficult point is made vivid in an anecdote from Yoruba-land (West Africa), which is told of the trickster-divinity Edshu.†   (source)
  • They had a house at Well Walk during the Crimean War; for there was an anecdote about watching the soldiers drill on the Heath.†   (source)
  • She missed him, missed his light flippant touch in anecdotes that made her shout with laughter, his sardonic grin that reduced troubles to their proper proportions, missed even his jeers that stung her to angry retort.†   (source)
  • This was true of those at least for whom silence was unbearable, and since the others could not find the truly expressive word, they resigned themselves to using the current coin of language, the commonplaces of plain narrative, of anecdote, and of their daily paper.†   (source)
  • I asked him about it, and he laughed just as big as you please: 'Why, Mrs. Gant,' he said—" and there would follow an endless anecdote, embellished with many a winding rivulet.†   (source)
  • He whispered into the Franciscan's ear such thoughts and anecdotes as belied the notion of a guided world.†   (source)
  • But her beauty at once came to the fore, even as a little girl; for there was another anecdote—how she could never be sent out alone, but must have Mary with her, to protect her from admiring looks : to keep her unconscious of that beauty— and she was, my father said, very little conscious of it.†   (source)
  • In the later stages of many mythologies, the key images hide like needles in great haystacks of secondary anecdote and rationalization; for when a civilization has passed from a mythological to a secular point of view, the older images are no longer felt or quite approved.†   (source)
  • I think, from stray anecdotes and from what I noticed myself; that when she came to consciousness as a child the unhappy years were at their height.†   (source)
  • It deals with one after another of the victims of the accident, cataloguing thousands of little facts and anecdotes and testimonies, and concluding with a dignified passage describing why God had settled upon that person and upon that day for His demonstration of wisdom.†   (source)
  • He had read all the libertine masterpieces of Italy and France and reread them annually; even in the torments of the stone (happily dissolved by drinking the water from the springs of Santa Maria de Cluxambuqua), he could find nothing more nourishing than the anecdotes of Brantome and the divine Aretino.†   (source)
  • In China, comparably, where the humanistic, moralizing force of Confucianism has fairly emptied the old myth forms of their primal grandeur, the official mythology is today a clutter of anecdotes about the sons and daughters of provincial officials, who, for serving their community one way or another, were elevated by their grateful beneficiaries to the dignity of local gods.†   (source)
  • But can I get any closer to her without drawing upon all those descriptions and anecdotes which after she was dead imposed themselves upon my view of her?†   (source)
  • He must have made conversation and told anecdotes, and he had, now I come to think of it, a little card case and went calling, like other Victorian gentlemen of a Sunday afternoon.†   (source)
  • I think an anecdote is about the best way to give you an idea of what the old gentleman was like.†   (source)
  • They were like the cherubs of the anecdote, who had—morally, at any rate—nothing to whack!†   (source)
  • Elated by his importance, he began an indecent anecdote.†   (source)
  • The Journalist tried to relieve the tension by telling anecdotes of Hettie Potter.†   (source)
  • Even for his classroom he had no platitudes, no stock of professorial anecdotes.†   (source)
  • How very curious, point for point the same anecdote, and happening at different ends of Europe!†   (source)
  • Concerning him also she invented anecdotes.†   (source)
  • And you, gentlemen, I assure you my anecdote is the naked truth.†   (source)
  • Enough of your vile, nasty anecdotes, depraved vile, sensual man!†   (source)
  • He quotes a curious anecdote on this subject, which occurred in the year 1663.†   (source)
  • When, in the evening, Charles told her this anecdote, Emma inveighed loudly against his colleague.†   (source)
  • Stepan Arkadyevitch's anecdote too was very amusing.†   (source)
  • You know you're telling lies and that that stupid anecdote isn't true.†   (source)
  • And I told the common people—oah, such tales and anecdotes!†   (source)
  • It has never been more than a family anecdote.†   (source)
  • He was storing his memory with anecdotes and noble names.†   (source)
  • Pray, madam, shall I tell you some little anecdotes about my Lady Bareacres, your mamma?†   (source)
  • In any case the anecdote made a certain favorable impression on the public.†   (source)
  • Another anecdote is so close to my matter, that I must hazard the story.†   (source)
  • He cited various anecdotes about thieves who had suddenly become honest.†   (source)
  • Most of the anecdotes, if not relating to the state service, related to people in the service.†   (source)
  • I could not have hoped to entertain you with Irish anecdotes during a ten miles' drive.†   (source)
  • His garden or his poultry-yard—very paltry places it may be—tells him many pleasant anecdotes.†   (source)
  • [Then followed the anecdote about Captain Snegiryov.†   (source)
  • Your Paris anecdote is rather to the point, Pyotr Alexandrovitch.†   (source)
  • He cannot step from off his tripod,[636] and give us anecdotes of his inspirations.†   (source)
  • There is an anecdote precisely on our subject, or rather a legend, not an anecdote.†   (source)
  • I told you your anecdote you'd forgotten, on purpose, so as to destroy your faith in me completely.†   (source)
  • That anecdote about the quadrillion years, I made up myself!†   (source)
  • The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Anecdote "I was leading a wild life then.†   (source)
  • "You'd better tell me some anecdote!" said Ivan miserably.†   (source)
  • The men on the steps—all in their shirt sleeves, their vests unbuttoned—sat with their legs well apart, their stomachs comfortably protruding, and talked of the prices of things, or told anecdotes of the sagacity of their various chiefs and overlords.†   (source)
  • He talked to her while he undressed, telling her anecdotes and bits of news and gossip that he had gathered during the day.†   (source)
  • If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.†   (source)
  • Supporting his arguments with all kinds of examples and anecdotes from the books and loose pages that lay on the table before him, even reciting poetry a few times, Dr. Krokowski discussed love's frightening forms—bizarre, agonized, eerie mutations of its symptoms and omnipotence.†   (source)
  • At that, of course, I understood the purpose of his anecdote, and knew that if he had left his spectacles at home, it had been done on purpose, so that he might have the benefit of Alan's help without the awkwardness of recognising him.†   (source)
  • Mr. Beebe smiled as Miss Alan plunged into an anecdote which he knew she would be unable to finish in the presence of a gentleman.†   (source)
  • The sculptor had also recorded certain anecdotes of Aristotle and Virgil, precisely as Francoise in her kitchen would break into speech about Saint Louis as though she herself had known him, generally in order to depreciate, by contrast with him, my grandparents, whom she considered less 'righteous.'†   (source)
  • I find that the most effective medicine for such individuals is administered at first in the form of a story, although I never tell an anecdote simply for the sake of telling one.†   (source)
  • Her mind was a store-house of innocuous anecdote and any question about her acquaintances brought forth a volume of detail; but on the subject of Ethan Frome I found her unexpectedly reticent.†   (source)
  • I ran across an ad of a course that claimed to teach people how to talk easily and on their feet, how to answer complaints, how to lay a proposition before the Boss, how to hit a bank for a loan, how to hold a big audience spellbound with wit, humor, anecdote, inspiration, etc. It was compiled by the Master Orator, Prof.†   (source)
  • He was a famous story-teller; after I had acquired language he used to spell clumsily into my hand his cleverest anecdotes, and nothing pleased him more than to have me repeat them at an opportune moment.†   (source)
  • Mr. Melson, who was possessed of no other negotiable securities, had hastened to employ these in capturing the eldest Miss Van Osburgh: since then he had grown stout and wheezy, and was given to telling anecdotes about his children.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he interjected anecdotes.†   (source)
  • On our little walk along the quays, he made himself the most interesting companion, telling me about the different ships that we passed by, their rig, tonnage, and nationality, explaining the work that was going forward—how one was discharging, another taking in cargo, and a third making ready for sea—and every now and then telling me some little anecdote of ships or seamen or repeating a nautical phrase till I had learned it perfectly.†   (source)
  • [1] I have the anecdote, which is quite authentic, from M. Pedro Gailhard himself, the late manager of the Opera†   (source)
  • Once I knew a man who fell in love with his nurse—" The anecdote rambled on, punctuated by their footsteps.†   (source)
  • For the second of welcome encounter this workman with the bandit mustache and the muddy overalls seemed nearer than any one else to the credulous youth which she was seeking to fight beside her, and she told him, as a cheerful anecdote, a little of her story.†   (source)
  • He told me some anecdotes.†   (source)
  • "No, no; one does not die of it," he pronounced finally, and when I found he did not mean to proceed with the personal anecdote, I was extremely disappointed; the more so as it was not the sort of story, you know, one could very well press him for.†   (source)
  • And now, when he related again the picturesque little anecdote about the examiner and his boots, he laughed.†   (source)
  • The probable drift of the subdued conversation which followed was made plain by the churchwarden breaking into an anecdote, in a voice that everybody in the church could hear, though obviously suggested by the present situation: "Well, now, it is a curious thing, but my grandfather told me a strange tale of a most immoral case that happened at the painting of the Commandments in a church out by Gaymead—which is quite within a walk of this one.†   (source)
  • But Clara talking, Clara telling a slender tale of a hatpin and an inebriated man and herself....People tried afterward to repeat her anecdotes but for the life of them they could make them sound like nothing whatever.†   (source)
  • Every lawyer learns over and over how strong a motive hate can be, but in my collection of legal anecdotes I had nothing to match this one.†   (source)
  • Half a minute," he remarked when the anecdote was over, and went to the telephone to ask Callendar to look in as soon as he found it convenient, because she hadn't borne the journey well.†   (source)
  • Other towns she came to know by anecdote: a prairie village where the wind blew all day long, and the mud was two feet thick in spring, and in summer the flying sand scarred new-painted houses and dust covered the few flowers set out in pots.†   (source)
  • The first, his neighbor on the left, was A. K. Ferge, the good-natured martyr from Saint Petersburg, from under whose bushy reddish-brown moustache came anecdotes about the manufacture of galoshes and tales of distant regions, the Arctic Circle, and the perpetual winter at North Cape.†   (source)
  • 'Some sleight-of-hand trick or other,' said the Medical Man, and Filby tried to tell us about a conjurer he had seen at Burslem; but before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back, and Filby's anecdote collapsed.†   (source)
  • Victor had grown hilarious, and was attempting to tell an anecdote about a Mexican girl who served chocolate one winter in a restaurant in Dauphine Street.†   (source)
  • To come down to the basic and fundamental issues of this campaign, the great error, insincerely promulgated by Seneca Doane—" There were workmen who jeered—young cynical workmen, for the most part foreigners, Jews, Swedes, Irishmen, Italians—but the older men, the patient, bleached, stooped carpenters and mechanics, cheered him; and when he worked up to his anecdote of Lincoln their eyes were wet.†   (source)
  • He poured out anecdote after anecdote.†   (source)
  • It made me blush, the next minute, to see in my friend's face how much more unreservedly she had forgiven him than her anecdote struck me as presenting to my own tenderness an occasion for doing.†   (source)
  • The return of this asymmetrical Saturday was one of those petty occurrences, intra-mural, localised, almost civic, which, in uneventful lives and stable orders of society, create a kind of national unity, and become the favourite theme for conversation, for pleasantries, for anecdotes which can be embroidered as the narrator pleases; it would have provided a nucleus, ready-made, for a legendary cycle, if any of us had had the epic mind.†   (source)
  • His chivalrous manners to women, and his elevated moral sentiments, being both gratuitous and unusual, strike them as being a little unfortunate; and though they find his vein of easy humor rather amusing when it has ceased to puzzle them (as it does at first), they have had to make him understand that he really must not tell anecdotes unless they are strictly personal and scandalous, and also that oratory is an accomplishment which belongs to a cruder stage of civilization than that in which his migration has landed him.†   (source)
  • The question is connected with the following anecdote of past times; for I am obliged to relate a story.†   (source)
  • He provided anecdotes about his sergeant, a surly, fanatical soldier, who was caught in the awkward position of dealing with a younger, fallible subordinate, who nevertheless already visited the officer's casino and was destined to be his superior one day.†   (source)
  • But I wish, instead of limiting ourselves either to the Bible, or to anecdotes about the Brothers Adam's wigs, which Culture Hints seems to regard as the significant point about furniture, we could study some of the really stirring ideas that are springing up today—whether it's chemistry or anthropology or labor problems—the things that are going to mean so terribly much.†   (source)
  • To Philip it seemed crude and stupid; the naive obscenity, c'est la vie, mon cher, c'est la vie, he cried, the naive obscenity served only to emphasise the conventionality of the anecdote.†   (source)
  • From all his occupations he had gathered amusing anecdotes, which he told with a keen pleasure in his own powers of entertainment.†   (source)
  • Evgenie Pavlovitch continued some apparently extremely funny and interesting anecdote to Alexandra, speaking quickly and with much animation.†   (source)
  • But the strangest thing of all in my case is, that I should consider the little anecdote which I am now about to give you as a confession of the worst of my 'bad actions.'†   (source)
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