Chesterton

[ ches-ter-tuhn ]

noun

1. G(ilbert) K(eith), 1874–1936, English essayist, critic, and novelist.

Chesterton

/ ˈtʃɛstətən /

noun

1. ChestertonG(ilbert) K(eith)18741936MEnglishWRITING: essayistWRITING: novelistWRITING: poetWRITING: critic G ( ilbert ) K ( eith ). 1874–1936, English essayist, novelist, poet, and critic

Example Sentences

It means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell.

From The Daily Beast

A little gospel here, a little Chesterton there, a little waistcoat here.

From The Daily Beast

And now I wonder, can you really translate G.K. Chesterton into Kannada?

From The Daily Beast

I found her, as Shaw found Chesterton, “to sometimes be at his best when you disagreed with him.”

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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, by G.K. Chesterton—A nightmare all right: lurid, screwball, and grotesque.

From The Daily Beast

Chesterton pounced upon the half-buried matchbox, and in a panic lest he might again lose it, thrust it inside his tunic.

From Project Gutenberg

Our writers, with a few notable exceptions, such as Mr. Gilbert Chesterton and Mr. Wells, have seldom risen above trite truisms.

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On the Huntingdon side is the village of Chesterton (English).

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Or had he been reading Chesterton and was he but striving to present in his own personality a futurists effect of upside-downness?

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Though Mr. Chesterton turned the pages of notes as he spoke, he could not be said to have read his lecture.

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