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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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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