What is "annalist"

Usage examples of "annalist".

Declan refrained from recording the rumors in the Annals of Kill Dalua, but other annalists would be less generous.

An ambiguous passage of Theophanes persuaded the annalist of the church that death was the immediate consequence of this barbarous execution.

This Turkish embassy, attested only by Crantzius, is related with some doubt by the annalist Spondanus, A.

Amidst the crowd, our annalist has selected the names, colors, and devices, of twenty of the most conspicuous knights.

In fact, up to the present time, this current alone has received attention from the epical poet, the annalist, the historian, and the sociologist.

Thus, while Marion is everywhere regarded as the peculiar representative in the southern States, of the genius of partisan warfare, we are surprised, when we would trace, in the pages of the annalist, the sources of this fame, to find the details so meagre and so unsatisfactory.

But this discussion is immaterial, since these supreme examples of literary excellence exist in all kinds of composition,--poetry, fable, romance, ethical teaching, prophecy, interpretation, history, humor, satire, devotional flight into the spiritual and supernatural, everything in which the human mind has exercised itself,--from the days of the Egyptian moralist and the Old Testament annalist and poet down to our scientific age.

Media, is overbalanced by the silence of two annalists of a more early date, both Christians, both natives of Egypt, and the most ancient of whom, the patriarch Eutychius, has amply described the conquest of Alexandria.

For the ordinary history of the popes, their life and death, their residence and absence, it is enough to refer to the ecclesiastical annalists, Spondanus and Fleury.

The old annalists had it that Tigernmas had forsaken the ancient gods and turned to worship an idol dedicated to blood and vengeance.

Claudius himself who is writing this book, and no secretary of his, and not one of those official annalists, either, to whom public men are in the habit of communicating their recollections, in the hope that elegant writing will eke out meagreness of subject-matter and flattery soften vices.

We, as humble annalists, can only vouch for the truth of the facts we have already related and of those which will follow.

I have given the story in detail, as showing the origin and character of the destructive raids, of which New England annalists show only the results.

An ancient anonymous annalist, a monk of Dombes, relates that a woman called Orberosia was possessed by the devil in a cavern where, even down to his own days, the little boys and girls of the village used to play at a sort of game representing the devil and the fair Orberosia.

Claudius himself who is writing this book, and no secretary of his, and not one of those official annalists, either, to whom public men are in the habit of communicating their recollections, in the hope that elegant writing will eke out meagreness of subject-matter and flattery soften vices.