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[ ches-ter-tuhn ] / ˈtʃɛs tər tən /
nounG(ilbert) K(eith), 1874–1936, English essayist, critic, and novelist. Words nearby Chestertonchested, Chester, chesterbed, chesterfield, Chesterfieldian, Chesterton, Chester White, chest lead, chestnut, chestnut blight, chestnut bottle Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ChestertonIt means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell. The Incredibly Stupid War on the Common Core|Charles Upton Sahm|April 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST A little gospel here, a little Chesterton there, a little waistcoat here. Mumford and Sons: The Pinterest of Folk Music|Justin Green|October 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST I found her, as Shaw found Chesterton, “to sometimes be at his best when you disagreed with him.” The Only Critic That Mattered|Allen Barra|November 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST But Chesterton's taste for bigness has come to his service in criticism. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study|Julius West
It is dangerous to wander in fairyland, as Chesterton has himself demonstrated, "one might meet a fairy." G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study|Julius West If you don't accept that you are damned; the Chesterton guillotine has clicked on you. Books and Persons|Arnold Bennett Then we came to realize, as never before, the value of such men as Chesterton. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study|Julius West Chesterton seems extraordinarily shy with his feminine characters. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study|Julius West
British Dictionary definitions for Chesterton
nounG (ilbert) K (eith). 1874–1936, English essayist, novelist, poet, and critic Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |