All 5 Uses of
anecdote
in
A Sketch of the Past
- 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?†
- They had a house at Well Walk during the Crimean War; for there was an anecdote about watching the soldiers drill on the Heath.†
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- 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.†
- 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.†
- 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.†
Definition:
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(anecdote) a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point