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Chesterton

noun

Conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936). Synonyms: G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

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"Chesterton" Quotes from Famous Books

... serve me," I answered. "Do you find some barn at Chesterton over the water, and leave two or three men to watch for my coming. Thrand and Guthorm may come ...

— King Olaf's Kinsman - A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in - the Days of Ironside and Cnut • Charles Whistler

... wonderful article on the importance of dressing up some one to look like HINDENBURG and dropping him at night by parachute from an aeroplane into the German lines near Head-Quarters. It would have to be a biggish man who can speak German well—Mr. CHESTERTON perhaps, but I have never met Mr. CHESTERTON, as he seems never to lunch or dine at the Ritz; or even Lord HALDANE. Once safely landed (my article goes on to explain) he would make his way to German H. Q., being mistaken for the real HINDENBURG, kill him and then issue ...

— Punch or the London Charivari, October 20, 1920 • Various

... deliberated whether Bernard Shaw ought to go into Parliament. And that brought them to vegetarianism and teetotalism, and the young man in the orange tie and Mrs. Goopes had a great set-to about the sincerity of Chesterton and Belloc that was ended by Goopes showing signs of resuming ...

— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells

... frills, and when she reached Chesterton Mansions, she was soon established under the wing of ...

— Patty's Friends • Carolyn Wells

Words linked to "Chesterton" : Gilbert Keith Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, author, writer