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Love in the Time of Cholera
- But despite these extreme ideas, which were already part of local medical folklore, his former pupils continued to consult him even after they were established in the profession, for they recognized in him what was called in those days a clinical eye.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)established = settled
- The Center for the Arts, which was also his idea, established the School of Fine Arts in the same house where it is still located, and for many years he was a patron of the Poetic Festival in April.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- He prepared hot lemonade with a shot of brandy, drank it in bed with two aspirin tablets, and, wrapped in a wool blanket, sweated by the bucketful until the proper equilibrium had been reestablished in his body.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- So that Florentino Ariza not only learned the complete itinerary but also established an extensive brotherhood of telegraph operators who would follow the trail of Fermina Daza to the last settlement in Cabo de la Vela.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- They set dates, established means, pledged their lives to their mutual determination to marry without consulting anyone, wherever and however they could, as soon as they were together again.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- It ended as suddenly as it had begun, and the extent of its ravages was never known, not because this was impossible to establish but because one of our most widespread virtues was a certain reticence concerning personal misfortune.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- They established an obligatory Chair of Cholera and Yellow Fever in the Medical School, and realized the urgency of closing up the sewers and building a market far from the garbage dump.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- He reestablished relations with his closest friends, and sometimes they played billiards or conversed in the outdoor cafes under the arches around the Plaza of the Cathedral, but he did not go back to the Saturday night dances: he could not conceive of them without her.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- He concluded: "It is something that only God can do, of course, but in any event it would be good to have it established in theoretical terms."
Chpt 3 (definition 2) *established = demonstrated
- After the first month he had to establish a system of appointments made in advance so that he would not be swamped by yearning lovers.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- But that did not matter to him, for he did compete not out of ambition for the prize but because the contest held an additional attraction for him: in the first session Fermina Daza had opened the sealed envelopes and announced the names of the winners, and then it was established that she would continue to do so in the years that followed.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)established = set in place
- It was not her night: while they were eating their reheated coconut rice, she tried to establish how much each of them had contributed to the losing poem, in order to determine how many petals of the Golden Orchid would have gone to each one.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- Although in reality she was not concerned with who was responsible or with convincing herself of her own innocence: she was satisfied at having established it.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- It was not easy for her to establish real differences between children and adults, but in the last analysis she preferred children, because their judgment was more reliable.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- That was all she said, inhibited perhaps by the resonance of her voice in the darkness, for the custom of embellishing silent films with piano accompaniment had not yet been established here, and in the darkened enclosure all that one could hear was the projector murmuring like rain.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)established = started
- Little by little he had fallen into the routine of visiting the ones who were already established, sleeping with them for as long as they pleased him, for as long as he could, for as long as they lived.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- Florentino Ariza had met her at a time when she would have received any man who wanted to be with her, even if he were hired by the hour, and they had established a relationship that was more serious and longer-lived than would have seemed possible.
Chpt 6 (definition 1) *established = created
- But in a few hours order would be reestablished because she at last took pity on so much silk strewn on the floor, so many leftover brocades and useless pieces of passementerie, so many silver fox tails, all condemned to the fire.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- The games were so pleasant for everyone that they soon became as official as his visits, and patterns were established for each person's contribution.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- Fermina Daza, bored with the men's enervated discussion concerning the possibility of establishing differential fares, ate without will.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place
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(2) (establish as in: establish that there is a need) show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)