anecdotist

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 Various

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 G. M. Godden

Reverting to my reminiscences -- or rather to what are for myself less interesting portions, for I am a land agent by profession and an anecdotist only by habit -- I remember that an Englishman subsequently a

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

This Denbigh ancestry recalls a pleasant example of Fielding's wit, preserved in a story told by his son, and recorded in the pages of that voluminous eighteenth-century anecdotist, John Nichols.

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newland's part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed.

The Age of Innocence 1920

If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newland’s part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed.

V. Book I 1920

He was neither a professional anecdotist, like another famous American talker, Mr. Chauncey Depew, nor a man on the watch for something to disagree with, like Mr. Blaine, nor even, as was his admirable successor, Mr. Phelps, a man of long silences broken by flashes of humor.

Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

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 Godden, G M 1909

This Denbigh ancestry recalls a pleasant example of Fielding's wit, preserved in a story told by his son, and recorded in the pages of that voluminous eighteenth-century anecdotist, John Nichols.

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

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 Harry Leon Wilson 1903