1 And once, alter such an operation, Scarlett found her in the linen closet vomiting quietly into a towel.
2 But with the operation of what came to be known as the governor's "slander mill," the North saw only a rebellious state that needed a heavy hand, and a heavy hand was laid upon it.
3 Kennicott had taken a patient to Rochester for an operation.
4 Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
5 But in very many cases, circumstances require that the harpooneer shall remain on the whale till the whole tensing or stripping operation is concluded.
6 To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an analogous operation upon their boat; they grease the bottom.
7 It was a collection of furnaces, fat-kettles, and oil sheds; and when the works were in full operation certainly gave forth no very pleasant savor.
8 By midnight the works were in full operation.
9 , brand him in the forehead with a hot iron and perform upon him a surgical operation with a pair of tailor's shears.
10 At this meeting divers plans of operation were suggested, though none of a character to meet the wishes of their ardent leader.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 31 11 Just at present, however, Aunt Chloe is looking into the bake-pan; in which congenial operation we shall leave her till we finish our picture of the cottage.
12 The baby employed the intervals in pulling Tom's nose, scratching his face, and burying her fat hands in his woolly hair, which last operation seemed to afford her special content.
13 While all other preparations were going on, Simeon the elder stood in his shirt-sleeves before a little looking-glass in the corner, engaged in the anti-patriarchal operation of shaving.
14 This mentality, Lepidus would say, is indeed bred out of your mud by the operation of your sun.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 15 Then with swiftness, but with absolute method, Van Helsing performed the operation.