finca
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The finca is on our minds all the time.
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
At the finca, scholars say, Hemingway put final touches on "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and penned his comeback, Pulitzer-winning and Nobel-clinching Cuban fisherman's saga, "The Old Man and the Sea," among other works.
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
“Oh, I’ve known a few. Yes. A few. You know, it’s an Americano that owns the finca back there.”
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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
Almost everyone was off, working in the coffee fincas.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Starr, Frederick
But go back now to your fincas and your fishing, to your little stores and your humble homes, firmly resolving never to think a bad thought, whether about yourself or your neighbor.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
His fincas and herds and mines melted away from him like grease from a holy candle.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
