finca
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We have to leave the finca and the island.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2021
In the first chapter, Basch and Berry are staying at their Costa Rican finca, and Basch requires stitches from a Tica physician.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2019
Pilar, Hemingway's beloved fishing boat, thoroughly refurbished and spiffy, is permanently dry-docked on the finca tennis court, cutting an elegant but forlorn figure, its swashbuckling days of deep-sea trolling and hunting Nazi subs long gone.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2018
Stern called the finca row just one example of Becker’s inability to cope with the millions he had earned.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2017
There was a part of him that could never leave the finca or the comfort of its cycles, and this diminished him for any other life.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
During his time in office, Arbenz emerged as the owner of a $3,000,000 cotton plantation; his Interior Minister turned into a gentleman-farmer with two coffee fincas; another pal acquired two mansions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of his 50-odd cattle ranches and 45 coffee fincas he got by "smart buying."
From Time Magazine Archive
And for this he receives the direction of the See of Cartagena and the disposition of the rich revenues from the mines and fincas of his diocese.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
The male indians of Tuxtla are, in large part, employed in contract labor on fincas at a distance from the town.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
Almost everyone was off, working in the coffee fincas.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
