All 7 Uses of
dispose
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- That was why they took the bells off the goats, bells that the Arabs had swapped them for macaws, and put them at the entrance to town at the disposal of those who would not listen to the advice and entreaties of the sentinels and insisted on visiting the town.
Chpt 3disposal = command
- The founders of Macondo, resolving to expel the invaders, went with their older sons to put themselves at the disposal of Jose Arcadio Buendia.
Chpt 3
- He based his right on the fact that the usurped lands had been distributed by Jose Arcadio Buendia at the time of the founding, and he thought it possible to prove that his father had been crazy ever since that time, for he had disposed of a patrimony that really belonged to the family.†
Chpt 6 *
- At dawn the guests, soaked in champagne, sacrificed six cows and put them in the street at the disposal of the crowd.
Chpt 10 *disposal = command
- Aureliano Segundo decided that they would have to bring her to the house and take care of her, but his good intentions were frustrated by the firm intransigence of Rebeca, who had needed many years of suffering and misery in order to attain the privileges of solitude and who was not disposed to renounce them in exchange for an old age disturbed by the false attractions of charity.†
Chpt 11
- She had so much time at her disposal then and so much interior silence to watch over the life of the house that she was the first to notice Meme's silent tribulation.
Chpt 14disposal = command
- Also, the freedom that he enjoyed then and the time at his disposal awoke in him a certain curiosity about the town, which he came to know without any surprise.
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(dispose as in: disposed the troops along...) the arrangement, positioning, or use of thingseditor's notes: This sense of dispose can be used in the form disposal to indicate that a person can use something as they wish -- as in:
- I am at your disposal.
- She has many assets at her disposal.
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(dispose as in: dispose of the waste) to throw away