Members of my husband’s family have given me anecdotes and helped to verify many incidents, and Mr. Alexander Bull kindly placed at my disposal the correspondence of his parents.
The papers were filled with articles and anecdotes concerning his life and work.
The following characteristic anecdotes were related by a Brooklyn gentleman who called on Mr. Colton to meet Ole Bull, and was shown to the door of the model work–shop.
Anecdotes of his humour circulate through the colonies: being asked by a settler to find him a man to perform certain work, he took him into his room and pointed him to a mirror.
The chief contents were droll anecdotes and odd exploits.
This was one of the legends of my earliest years, one of those anecdotes which are told of a beloved son, and which make him feel that the smallest details of his existence have been observed, understood, and loved.
In contrast to these odious stories of hanging judges are some anecdotes of great men, who abhorred the atrocities of our penal system, long before the worst of them were swept away by reform.
In this strain ran the veteran's story, which, like all other anecdotes from the same source, must be received with caution.
Capital also are the best of many anecdotes concerning Eldon and his ecclesiastical patronage.
Gloomily comical are the anecdotes of Chief Justice Fleming, whose most famous and disastrous blunder was his judgment in Bates's case.
The familiar anecdotes which are told as illustrations of Chief Justice Hale's integrity are very ridiculous, but they serve to show that the judges of his time were believed to be very accessible to corrupt influences.
The anecdotes which are told of this singular man are numerous.
With any anecdotesrespecting their customs and conduct.
It is much better to keep him a little buoyant and cheerful, with anecdotes and stories, for that is his natural character; and to take advantage of occasional opportunities, to slip in advices that are to be of use to him.
Under the chapter of Language will be found some curious anecdotes of the manner in which these were collected.
We require something more natural, and the jests in these papers now consist mostly of extracts from the works, or anecdotes from the lives of celebrated men.
There are a few amusing anecdotes in it, such as that about Alphonso, King of Naples.
During the time we sat at table, I heard anecdotes of most of the chief leaders of the patriot as also of the Royalist forces.
These and similar anecdotes occupied the time we took in crossing the lake.
FN#179] The anecdotesin this chapter were told me by one of Burton's friends.
Several anecdotes of Bahloul are to be found in Jami's Beharistan.
The Sindbad cycle is followed by the melancholy "City of Brass," and a great collection of anecdotes illustrative of the craft and malice of woman.
In our accounts of Burton's travels will be found a number of interesting facts and some anecdotes not given in Burton's works.
Footnotes: [FN#1] The few anecdotes that Lady Burton does give are taken from the books of Alfred B.
Perhaps this is the best place to introduce a sheaf of miscellaneous unpublished anecdotes which have been drawn together from various sources.
Many of the thoughts are illustrated by similes and anecdotes very touching and appropriate.
Bright, simply-worded homilies for children, with plenty of anecdotes and illustrations, which are not dragged in, but really do help the lesson to be enforced.
They are replete with anecdotes drawn from life, and such as are calculated to fix the attention of homely folk for whom especially they are intended.
Providing one or more anecdotes illustrating each clause of the Church Catechism, the teacher being left to apply the materials thus provided.
An endeavour has been made to find good anecdotes which have not been used in other well-known books on the Church Catechism, and the volume cannot fail to delight and interest the children who are being taught.
Emma Smith is described as "a tall, dark, masculine looking woman" in "Sketches and Anecdotesof the Old Settlers.
See also "Sketches andAnecdotes of the Old Settlers," p.
All these anecdotes were told to me by Mr. Fields and I intend to give only those memories which are my own.
Avoid stale and trite remarks on commonplace subjects; also all egotism and anecdotes of personal adventure and exploit, unless they should be called out by persons you are conversing with.
Lady Hester delighted in anecdotes that went to show how much and how justly we may be biassed in our opinions by the shape of any particular part of a person's body independent of the face.
Among the anecdotes of his eccentricity it is related that, to a gentleman with whom he was intimate he presented a packet, carefully folded and sealed, with a particular injunction not to open it till after his death.
I have picked up a few anecdotes respecting him from two or three friends who were his acquaintance.
In her anecdotes of old times and people, she is quite inexhaustible.
We embarked at Dover at one, with a cloudless sky and rippling waves, and an Irish lady near me was most amusing, telling anecdotes first in French to her neighbour on the other side and then in English to me.
The Shanghai merchant conversed with the captain in a low tone of voice about the system of Japanese spies in America, and related a few anecdotes of his experiences in China in this connection.
There is a story related by this accomplished scholar, in a collection of aphorisms andanecdotes entitled Mensa Philosophica, which deserves to be cited as illustrating the ideas then current on the subject of sorcery.
Miss Rebecca asked him a great number of questions about India, which gave him an opportunity of narrating many interesting anecdotes about that country and himself.
Rawdon, with roars of laughter, related a dozen amusing anecdotes of his duns, and Rebecca's adroit treatment of them.
Pray, madam, shall I tell you some little anecdotes about my Lady Bareacres, your mamma?
He had a thousand anecdotes about the famous battles; he knew the position of every regiment and the loss which each had incurred.
What charming agreeable fellows dentists are: what capital jokes they make, and what highly seasoned anecdotes they retail just before drawing out a tooth.
It was hardly cowardice, for George had told me anecdotes of her endurance in the hunting-field which shewed that she was capable of supporting pain; but the obsession made her a difficult patient.
Mrs. O'Rane, who could make a story out of nothing, poured out an endless stream of anecdotes against herself.
Concerning this personage Gauguin himself told many anecdotesin later years.
I have manyanecdotes of mistakes when the twins were nearly grown up.
I have a few anecdotesof strange mistakes made between twins in adult life.
One of my inquiries was foranecdotes regarding mistakes made between the twins by their near relatives.
Other anecdotesof a like kind have reached me about these twins.
No less than nine anecdotes have reached me of a twin seeing his or her reflection in a looking-glass, and addressing it in the belief it was the other twin in person.
However, the twins in question were extraordinarily alike, and I have many anecdotes about them sent me by the latter gentleman.
Consequently theanecdotes of their existence are scattered sparingly among a large number of volumes.
Anecdotes abound to tell of the hilarious but very harmless festivities which mitigated the discouragements of their task.
His anecdotes relative to the monarch himself are rare, trivial, and worthless, for it does not seem to have occurred to the royal secretary that in such a work his master to the general reader is a far more attractive individual than himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anecdotes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
