What is "rica"

Usage examples of "rica".

Kelian was residing in the unknown and inaccessible Bodarks, not on Park Avenue in New York or some exotic hideaway in Costa Rica.

Her husband, Nicky Brompton, heir to a dukedom, called himself a farmer and omitted to specify that the estates on whose income his family was maintained comprised three thousand arable acres in Gloucestershire and East Anglia, a hundred times as much in Costa Rica with two gold mines beneath, and a district of London where luxury apartments leased by lesser millionaires rubbed buttresses with i92os model tenements built by Brompton Trust.

And for that, we need to get them out into the open in an artillery kill zone, trap them there, kill them there, then race to liberate Chiriqui and that tip of Costa Rica and plug the road in from the rest of Costa Rica.

Anittas was more machine than man, Rica Dawnstar was an insolent little wretch, Kaj Nevis was no better than a common criminal, and Haviland Tuf was just unspeakable.

The Mamelucos, finding no more Indians to enslave, fell on the two towns of Villa Rica and Ciudad Real, destroyed them utterly, and forced the inhabitants to flee for refuge into Paraguay.

As at the time the Jesuits had no missions near Villa Rica, the order was most unpleasant to him.

What might be the future life of the Arkwrights had not been absolutely fixed, but there was a strong hope on their part that they might never be forced to return to Costa Rica.

In 1990 workers who had been laid off from the Levi Strauss company in San Antonio because the company was moving to Costa Rica called a boycott, organized a hunger strike, and won concessions.

An airstrip was built on the farm so he could fly in and out from Costa Rica to visit the children while purchasing stolen art and illegal antiquities from the Zolar family.

Some of the big bioprospecting drug companies, like Merck which had spent years trawling the flora and fauna of Costa Rica for resources for new products, had had similar repositories impounded and shipped off-Earth, though not without bloody battles over compensation.

Then the bust up with Banda Rica came off, and the blighters sort of roped me in.

Terrell described it as a "continuous undercurrent of… really terrorist activity to try to draw the United States Government into direct conflict with the Nicaraguans because they were to be made to look like they were committing overt acts against a neutral and unarmed country, Costa Rica.

But that day there were not many white men in evidence—or their animals or their conscripted Totonaca laborers—for most of them, we learned, were working in a place some way farther north, where Cortés had decreed the construction of a more permanent Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, with solid houses of wood and stone and adobe.

No tenía metas definidas ni un plan de acción preciso, sino vagos sueños de aventuras en las ricas tierras del sur.

He had been one of the early pioneers in chaos theory, but his promising career had been disrupted by a severe injury during a trip to Costa Rica.