46 adjectives to describe operator

"Get the Lion quickly," he ordered the wireless operator.

In the hands of so skilful an operator, its slender body flutters voluminous with new folds of inexpensive cotton, and its eyes glare with the baleful terrors of unlimited tallow.

These have been made by an experienced operator, and were bought either for a mask ball or some other purpose.

Functional operators.

A telephone system may be likened, in a measure, to a complicated railroad line: the trunk wires to subscribers are like the tracks of the railroad, and the central station may be compared to the switch tower, while the central operators are like the switchmen.

" It was rather an astonished telegraph operator who, a little later, was confronted by four pretty girls, a man who looked as if he had been in a shipwreck, and a much-flustered lady.

It was first tried by his brother, who, unfortunately, was taken ill at the time when he had become an able operator.

And I also know that you are one of the most careful X-ray operators in the city.

With their curious box-like cameras, equipped with the thousand feet of sensitive celluloid film, and the operating handle, they had risen from the ranks of mere helpers to be expert operators.

About two in the morning an enormous despatch had come at last to an end, and the weary operator had opened the door, and was lighting his pipe in the cool, fresh air, when he saw a camel plump down in the dust, and a man, who seemed to be in the last stage of drunkenness, come rolling towards him.

At eighteen she was earning seven dollars a week as a skilled operator on a tucking machine.

BLUMBERG, H. Successful credit store operation; a practical manual for instalment operators and executives.

After an hour's wait I was asked to take my place at a certain table and receive a special report for the Boston Herald, the conspirators having arranged to have one of the fastest operators in New York send the despatch and "salt" the new man.

Then the grouchy operator slammed the door and left his guests to their own reflections.

Some of the results were funny, especially when the hurried and overworked operator got two faces on the same negative, as happened several times.

Although it is not absolutely necessary, it is an advantage, especially to the inexperienced operator, to apply before operating an Esmarch's bandage and tourniquet (Fig. 57).

He signaled the lantern operator and there leaped forth on the sheet the head of Martinez, the murdered, mutilated head with shattered eye and painted cheeks and the greenish death pallor showing underneath.

He soon became known as the luckiest operator in Wall Street, and the beginning of his every new deal was the signal for his fast-growing following to tag on.

Mechanical operators have passed over them with as little remorse as locusts blight fields of grain.

The process of separating the fibre from the stem is thus described by Mr. Healy in the "Journal of Agriculture for India"; "The native operator, standing up to his middle in water, takes as many of the sticks in his hands as he can grasp, and removing a small portion of the bark from the end next the roots, and grasping them together, he with a little management strips off the whole from end to end, without breaking either stem or fibre.

He did make it, with an hour to spare; an hour which he proceeded to turn into a time of sharp trial for the patient telegraph operator at the station, with his badgerings of the man for news of Number Three.

The first time I saw you, you certainly looked less like the traditional idea of a predatory coal-operator."

I learned that Mr. Hadley's firm had received the contract to make the views, and, by inquiries, through spies, I learned who their principal operators were.

[Mr. was a prominent operator on the Market, in connection with an attempted great "Cotton Corner." ...

Hope Seattle will pick it up, and if not, perhaps that radical operator who is supposed to be relaying messages to Canada and the States from the north-central portion of the Continent will catch it, and, thinking it one of his own messages in a new code, pass it on.

46 adjectives to describe  operator