finca
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“But this was in the countryside, in a finca, in La Vega, Manguito. And ever since then I have dreamed a lot about flying.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
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
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
“It means there’s a long way between what people say and what is. That finca belongs to Rockefela.”
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Some of his 50-odd cattle ranches and 45 coffee fincas he got by "smart buying."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
However, a reasonable amount of capital in the beginning is necessary and many investors possessing the capital prefer to buy fincas or plantations that are already producing.
From Guatemala, the country of the future by Charles M. Pepper
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
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 Charles Francis Stocking
