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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Having completely abandoned his domestic obligations, he spent entire nights in the courtyard watching the course of the stars and he almost contracted sunstroke from trying to establish an exact method to ascertain noon.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)

When he became an expert in the use and manipulation of his instruments, he conceived a notion of space that allowed him to navigate across unknown seas, to visit uninhabited territories, and to establish relations with splendid beings without having to leave his study.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)

In that hidden village there was a native-born tobacco planter who had lived there for some time, Don Jose Arcadio Buendia, with whom Ursula's great-great--grandfather established a partnership that was so lucrative that within a few years they made a fortune.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)

It was never established whether it was the rhubarb or the beatings that had effect, or both of them together, but the truth was that in a few weeks Rebeca began to show signs of recovery.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)

When there were only two pieces left to draw, it was established to whom they belonged.
Chpt 5 (definition 2) *

established = determined (figured out)

So they rented a house across from the cemetery and established themselves there with no other furniture but Jose Arcadio's hammock.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)

established = settled

M. curfew was established.
Chpt 5 (definition 1) *

established = created

She reestablished Sunday masses, suspended the use of red armbands, and abrogated the harebrained decrees.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)

He established his headquarters there and proclaimed total war against the regime.
Chpt 7 (definition 1)

established = placed

In three months he expected to establish his headquarters in Macondo.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)

She put small wooden chairs in the living room and established a nursery with other children from neighboring families.
Chpt 7 (definition 1)

established = created

He confirmed the fact to him that the leaders of the party had indeed established contact with the rebel leaders in the interior and were on the verge of arranging an armistice in exchange for three cabinet posts for the Liberals, a minority representation in the congress, and a general amnesty for rebels who laid down their arms.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)

As won as the shot was heard he was brought down by two simultaneous bullets whose origin was never established and a shout of many voices shook the night.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)

As soon as the order to bury the dead in a common grave was carried out, he assigned Colonel Roque Carnicero the minion of setting up courtmartial and he went ahead with the exhausting task of imposing radical reforms which would not leave a stone of the reestablished Conservative regime in place.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)

All that remained at that time of Jose Arcadio Buendia's ancient village were the dusty almond trees, destined to resist the most arduous of circumstances, and the river of clear water whose prehistoric stones had been pulverized by the frantic hammers of Jose Arcadio Segundo when he set about opening the channel in order to establish a boat line.†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)

The power of his presence was such that from the first time he was seen in the church everybody took it for granted that a silent and tense duel had been established between him and Remedios the Beauty, a secret pact, an irrevocable challenge that would end not only in love but also in death.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)

established = started

The others, even though they were unmarried, considered their destinies established.†
Chpt 11 (definition 1)

The only serene corner had been established by peaceful West Indian Negroes, who built a marginal street with wooden houses on piles where they would sit in the doors at dusk singing melancholy hymns in their disordered gabble.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)

So that the fable of the Virginia ham was nonsense, the same as that of the miraculous pills and the Yuletide toilets, and by a decision of the court it was established and set down in solemn decrees that the workers did not exist.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)

That was where Jose Arcadio Segundo was on the day it was announced that the army had been assigned to reestablish public order.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)

The children did not take long to notice that in the course of those ghostly visits Ursula would always ask a question destined to establish the one who had brought a life-size plaster Saint Joseph to the house to be kept until the rains stopped.†
Chpt 16 (definition 1)

It was never established whether it had really caused the death of the birds, but the newly married women did not bear the predicted monsters, nor did the intensity of the heat decrease.†
Chpt 17 (definition 1)

He had promised her to send her to finish her studies in Brussels, in accord with a custom established during the time of the banana company, and that illusion had brought him to attempt to revive the lands devastated by the deluge.
Chpt 17 (definition 1)

established = created

Aureliano lacked the means to establish the keys that would permit him to dig them out, but since Melquiades had told him that the books he needed to get to the bottom of the parchments were in the wise Catalonian's store, he decided to speak to Fernanda so that she would let him get them.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)

It was around that time that he conceived the idea of establishing an airmail service.
Chpt 19 (definition 1)

establishing = creating

But when he saw that Amaranta Ursula was determined to organize a commission for public improvement and even laughed at him when he hinted at the possibility of returning, he understood that things were going to take a long time and he reestablished contact with his forgotten partners in Brussels, thinking that it was just as well to be a pioneer in the Caribbean as in Africa.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)

Years before, when she had reached one hundred forty-five years of age, she had given up the pernicious custom of keeping track of her age and she went on living in the static and marginal time of memories, in a future perfectly revealed and established, beyond the futures disturbed by the insidious snares and suppositions of her cards.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)

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(1) (establish as in: establish a positive tone)
create, start, or set in [a] place

(2) (establish as in: establish that there is a need)
show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)