All 9 Uses of
establish
in
Sister Carrie
- She saw that she would first need to get work and establish herself company of any sort.†
Chpt 2
- At the time the department store was in its earliest form of successful operation, and there were not many The first three in the United States, established about 1884, were in Chicago.†
Chpt 3
- He kept a horse and neat trap, had his wife and two children, who were well established in neat house on the North Side near Lincoln Park, and was altogether a very acceptable individual of our great American upper class-the first grade below the luxuriously rich.
Chpt 5established = settled
- In the view of a certain stratum of society, Carrie was comfortably established-in eyes of the traveling, beaten by every wind and gusty sheet of rain, she was safe in a halcyon harbor.†
Chpt 10
- There was a third room for possible use as a kitchen, where Drouet had Carrie establish a little portable gas stove for the preparation of small lunches, oysters, Welsh rarebits, and the like, of which he was exceedingly fond; and, lastly a bath.†
Chpt 10
- Here, then, was Carrie, established in a pleasant fashion, free of certain difficulties which most ominously confronted her, laden with many new ones which were of a mental order, and altogether so turned about in all of her earthly relationships that she might well have been a new and different individual.
Chpt 10established = settled
- "Carrie," he said one morning, shortly after they had so established themselves, " I've invited my friend Hurstwood to come out some day and spend the evening with us."
Chpt 10 *
- Not long after she arrived Mrs. Hale established social relations with her, and together they went about.†
Chpt 11
- The critic of the "Evening World," seeking as usual to establish a catch phrase which should "go" with the town, wound up by advising: "If you wish to be merry, see Carrie frown."†
Chpt 43
Definition:
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(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place