2) anecdote. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...anecdote, (an´ikdot´) (KEY) , brief narrative of a particular incident. An anecdote differs from a short story in that it is unified in time and space, is uncomplicated,...

3) anecdote, antidote. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...are identical, but only the inexperienced would be likely to confuse these words. An anecdote (AN-ek-dot) is a short narrative, and an antidote (AN-ti-dot) is a remedy...

4) anecdote. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biography. French, from Greek anekdota, unpublished items : an-, not; see a-1 + ekdota, neuter pl. of ekdotos,...

5) Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works.
...ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS I HAVE a boy of five years old; His face is fair and fresh to see; His limbs are cast in beauty's mould, And dearly he loves me. One morn we...

6) Roosevelt, Theodore. 1919. Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children: A Quentin Anecdote.
...White House, April 22, 1906. DEAR KERMIT: Ted has been as good and cunning as possible. He has completely recovered from the effects of having his eye operated upon,...

7) antidote. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...See ANECDOTE. 1...

8) 32085. Karlin, Elyse Zorn. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:32085 QUOTATION:There is an anecdote passed around in psychoanalytical circles, about a boy who for no apparent reason reached the age of six without ever...

9) 8031. Anthony Holden. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 8031 AUTHOR: Anthony Holden QUOTATION: If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times...

10) shaggy-dog story. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Informal A long, drawn-out anecdote ending with an absurd or anticlimactic punch line....