John Evelyn was one

Usage examples of diarist.

It is only the diarist who accomplishes the feat of self-portraiture, and he, without any such end in view, does it unconsciously.

Charles Ward told his father, when they discussed Curwen one winter evening, that he would give much to learn what the mysterious old man had said to the sprightly cleric, but that all diarists agree concerning Dr.

In many cases, diarists have recorded with some awe, Curwen shewed almost the power of a wizard in unearthing family secrets for questionable use.

All that can be told of their discoveries is what Eleazar Smith jotted down in a non too coherent diary, and what other diarists and letter-writers have timidly repeated from the statements which they finally made - and according to which the farm was only the outer shell of some vast and revolting menace, of a scope and depth too profound and intangible for more than shadowy comprehension.

In applying to private families for records thought to be in their possession he made no concealment of his object, and shared the somewhat amused scepticism with which the accounts of the old diarists and letter-writers were regarded.

There have been too few Canadian diarists: however unfittingly, I have determined to fill the gap.

Social diarists like Rory Plantagenet noted their practice, at parties and functions, of releasing each other "lingeringly" as the dynamics of the convivium urged them apart.

Therefore I have revised it, and a substantial portion of what appears in this book is new matter -- though it arises from the ancient and inveterate grievances, enthusiasms and acerbities of the diarist.