All 18 Uses
foreman
in
The House of the Spirits
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- Then I tore all of Rosa's letters and drawings and the copies of my letters to her into a thousand pieces, stuffed my clothing, my papers, and my canvas pouch filled with gold into my suitcase, and went to find the foreman so I could leave him the logbooks and the keys to the warehouse.†
Chpt 1
- He still had two years left on the concession to the mine, enough time to finish exploring the marvelous lode he had discovered, but he felt that even if the foreman robbed him a little or did not know how to work it as well as he himself might, that was no reason for him to bury himself alive in the desert.†
Chpt 2
- I used all the money I had saved to marry Rosa, and everything the foreman sent me from the mine, to pull Tres Marias out of misery, but it wasn't money that saved the place, it was hard work and organization.†
Chpt 2
- At times Clara would accompany her mother and two or three of her suffragette friends on their visits to factories, where they would stand on soapboxes and make speeches to the women who worked there while the foremen and bosses, snickering and hostile, observed them from a prudent distance.†
Chpt 3
- Waiting for them in the courtyard of the hacienda were all the tenants, under orders from the foreman, Pedro Segundo Garcia.†
Chpt 4
- He was the foreman's son and, to differentiate him from his father and grandfather, had been named Pedro Tercero Garcia.†
Chpt 4 *
- Several days later, Esteban accompanied his wife and daughter back to the city, leaving Tres Marias once again in the hands of Pedro Segundo Garcia, whose responsibilities as foreman had brought him no more privileges, but only more work.†
Chpt 4
- As soon as the foreman had recovered, Esteban returned to the city without telling anyone.†
Chpt 4
- In Tres Marias, Pedro Segundo Garcia once again assumed the post of foreman, since the owner was unable to get out of bed.†
Chpt 5
- On orders from Esteban Trueba, his foreman began to reconstruct the main house exactly as it had been before.†
Chpt 5
- The foreman had grown deathly pale, but he said nothing.†
Chpt 6
- He hired a foreman to replace Pedro Segundo Garcia and put him in charge of the brood hens and imported cattle at Tres Marias and settled in the capital for good.†
Chpt 7
- He understood that it would not be easy to send him away without giving him a hearing, despite the fact that as a rule matters concerning his tenants were supposed to be resolved by the foreman at Tres Marias.†
Chpt 9
- Every once in a while he spoke to his foreman on the telephone to go over the accounts, but these calls left him in a bad mood for several days afterward.†
Chpt 10
- His foreman was a man defeated by his own pessimistic views, and his news was mostly a series of misfortunes: the strawberries froze, the chickens caught the pip, the grapes rotted.†
Chpt 10
- "Things are getting stormy in the countryside, patron," his foreman often warned him.†
Chpt 10
- The foreman was right: those were stormy years.†
Chpt 10
- The foreman, terrified by the turn of events and the fiery tone of the meetings the tenants held in the schoolhouse, gathered up his belongings and disappeared without a word to anyone, not even Senator Trueba, for he did not wish to face his anger and he felt he had done his duty by warning him many times in the past.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(foreman) a person chosen to lead and speak for a group, especially at work or in a courtroomAt work, a foreman is the worker who supervises and directs other workers, often in factories, workshops, or on construction sites. In a court case, the foreman is the juror selected to lead the jury and announce its decision.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)