All 12 Uses of
establish
in
The House of the Spirits
- The night that Dr. Cuevas and his assistant cut open Rosa's corpse in the kitchen to establish the cause of her death, Clara lay in bed with her eyes wide open, trembling in the dark.†
Chpt 1
- Ferula abhorred the moment when her brother returned from the country and filled the house with his presence, breaking the harmony they had established while he was away.†
Chpt 3
- Clara divided her time between the sewing workshop, the general store, and the school, where she established her headquarters for treating mange and lice, untangling the mysteries of the alphabet, teaching the children to sing "I have a dairy cow, she's not just any cow," and the women to boil milk, cure diarrhea, and bleach clothes.†
Chpt 4
- Via mysterious connections available only to initiates, they learned of Clara's existence, established telepathic contact with her, and immediately realized they were astral sisters.†
Chpt 4
- She packed up food from the pantry and established a shipping system with Pedro Segundo Garcia, who sent cheese, eggs, smoked meat, fruit, and chicken from Tres Marias for her to distribute among the poor.
Chpt 4established = created
- I also gave up the idea of establishing a good relationship with Blanca.
Chpt 6 *establishing = creating
- She often said that perhaps it was not the souls of the dead, wandering in another dimension, but rather beings from other planets who were trying to establish a relationship with earthlings but who, because they were made of an intangible matter, could easily be confused with souls.†
Chpt 7
- Clara was very happy to be living with her sons and was determined to establish a friendly relationship with them.†
Chpt 7
- She attempted to establish a system of communication with Blanca that would allow them to circumvent the terrible delays of the postal system, but telepathy did not always work and she was never sure how the message would be received.†
Chpt 7
- He established a network of mysterious contacts that enabled him to buy antiques, particularly baroque French porcelain, for which he had a weakness.
Chpt 8established = created
- Thus he learned that in North America Nicolas had established another academy for uniting himself with nothingness, and that he had been so successful that he had acquired the wealth he had not been able to with his balloon or his sandwiches.
Chpt 10
- But the main thing is to establish the protest and not leave the building until they sign the workers' list of demands.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place