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
We were not allowed to go into Lalao’s finca, which was surrounded by a well-maintained barbwire fence.
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
Some of the largest coffee fincas of Guatemala lie along this road, producing annually to hundreds of thousands in gold.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck
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
His fincas and herds and mines melted away from him like grease from a holy candle.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
