373 Verbs to Use for the Word operation

They have the same short intervals of labour and rest in their long night as their daythe light reflected from the earth, being commonly sufficient to enable them to perform almost any operation; and, ere our planet is in her second quarter, one may read the smallest print by her light.

Shortly before midnight the Turks began their operations against the line held by the 60th Division across the Nablus road precisely where it had been expected.

However, towards the close of the O. P. war, (which, by the way, excited more the attention of the Parisians than the national contest in which we were engaged,) the public had adopted the plan of never commencing operations until half-price, to the injury of the manager's purse.

It is true that everybody has seen the same thing one hundred and fifty times, but this description of indulgence appears to grow by what it feeds upon, and the fascinated victim watches the operation of the workers with a gratification which knows no abatement.

On the morrow the Romans renewed their march, the veteran officers who served under Varus now probably directing the operations and hoping to find the Germans drawn up to meet them, in which case they relied on their own superior discipline and tactics for such a victory as should reassure the supremacy of Rome.

The rashness of counterfeiters is proverbial, and they usually carry on their operations immediately under the nasal protuberance of the law.

As soon as his force had been made up to seven infantry divisions and the Desert Mounted Corps, and they had been brought up to strength and trained, he would attack, making his main offensive against the enemy's left flank while conducting operations vigorously and on an extensive scale against the Turkish right-centre and right.

Thomson has beautifully described the appearance of the sheep, when bound to undergo the operation of being shorn of its wool.

Ford has been located in Chicago, where, with an ample supply of money, he is repeating his New York operations; but Harold Melville has never been heard of until this day.

And, although we can't quite sympathise with his suggestion that detachments of sappers and miners be employed in the spring-time, in Arctic (and doubtless also Antarctic) regions, in blowing up icebergs and otherwise facilitating the operations of old Sol, we give the ingenious Frenchman credit for at least as much philosophic acumen as we ourselves possess: and Heaven only knows how superb a compliment we thus convey!

Did it stub its toe and fall?" Victor suspended operations with the handkerchief to bend upon his tormentor a louring, distrustful stare.

In spite of her sensitive and sympathetic nature she could bear to witness the most painful operations without flinching, for she kept before her mind the ultimate good which would accrue from the present suffering.

That it can, and ought to largely extend its operations; that it is in want of fresh funds; that it is proposed to build a new church, which, it is hoped, will be a centre of civilization and organization, as well as of religion and morality, for the district; and I am bidden to invite you, as close neighbours of Portsea, to help in the good work.

In practice, the gulf is bridged by constant contact between the Cabinet and the committees of Congress, but this does not wholly secure speedy and efficient co-operation between the two departments.

In January, 1874, he was appointed to superintend the relief operations in the famine-stricken districts of Bengal.

Apparently this Was what the German admiral was waiting for before resuming operations.

[as Howe's] found it necessary to go into winter quarters, your Lordship could possibly expect troops so far north to continue their operations.'

Corps squadrons will undertake artillery co-operation, contact patrols, and tactical reconnaissance for the Corps to which they are attached.

They require European co-operation, but if they combine against their European superior he can do nothing.

He this morning explained to us all the operation of coining, and, at night, all the operation of brewing, so very clearly, that Mr. M'Queen said, when he heard the first, he thought he had been bred in the Mint; when he heard the second, that he had been bred a brewer.

The skill and science brought to bear on the task of breeding accomplish this and much more difficult operations with marvellous ease and certainty.

He had just completed this operation, in the workmanlike fashion which he had learnt on service, when he heard a footstep on the stairs.

The impossibility of relief, and the certain prospect of wanting every necessary of life, should your opponents confine their operations to a simple Blockade, point out the absurdity of resistance.

The markings and detached pieces, as shown in the engravings under the heading of "Boiled Fowl," supersede the necessity of our lengthily again describing the operation.

It was the British Press and what lay behind it that prevented the co-operation of British capital.

373 Verbs to Use for the Word  operation