The completion of this operation naturally left me a little exposed on what I supposed to be my safe side.
After repeating this strenuous operation a number of times the desired effect was produced, most of the heaps in my corner of the field now being considerably larger than the rest.
At so critical a season every precaution must be used to render the necessary surgical operation of reaping as inconspicuous and as painless as possible.
However, he has now to undergo the more painful and dangerous operation of circumcision.
At Cairo the operation generally takes place between the sixth and the sixteenth of August, and till lately was attended by ceremonies which deserve to be noticed, because they were probably handed down from antiquity.
In some cases of magic which have come before us we have seen that the operation of spirits is assumed, and that an attempt is made to win their favour by prayer and sacrifice.
The taboo comes into operation as soon as the betrothal has taken place and before the marriage has been celebrated.
To put the charm in operation he makes a paste of red ochre and fish oil, inserts in it the eye of a cod and a small piece of the flesh of a corpse, and having rolled the compound into a ball sticks it on the top of the bone.
Among the Ovambo of South-west Africa custom requires that lads should be circumcised with a sharp flint; if none is to hand, the operation may be performed with iron, but the iron must afterwards be buried.
Apparently the operation is not very painful, for the patient laughs and jokes while it is going on.
The difficulties and dangers which, on the primitive view, beset the operation are of two kinds.
During the operation the chief celebrant recited the ritual chapter of "the sowing of the fields.
The operation is simple and easy, the requirement in tools and materials quite insignificant, and the operator has only to exercise a little patient industry to achieve good results.
The most difficult part of the whole operation is now before us.
Be careful, however, throughout the wholeoperation that you do not allow the weight of the body of the skin to stretch the skin of the neck.
It is used as a receptacle for insects which are beaten from the overhanging branches, under which it is held in an inverted position while the operation of beating is going on.
The same trees should be sugared and visited night after night, and the best results are often only obtained after a beat has been in operation for some time and the insects have learned to know it.
Work at the egg a little about every alternate day, but without hurrying matters, and keep this process in operation until the embryo softens, falls to pieces, and is ready to be drawn out piecemeal.
The skin having been adjusted upon the fine point of the tube, the bellows is put into operation and the skin is inflated.
Even if he requisitioned one of the terrified horses, he realised that the man would have disappeared from sight before the operation of unharnessing could be accomplished.
So you see he did not have to perform the distinctly difficult operation of removing his boots while on the machine!
But such a small action requires as careful planning as a big operation of other days.
They used it as the eyes of the army, in co-operation with the aerial eyes of the planes.
Where a bombingoperation ends in an attack, a German is naturally on one side of a traverse and a Briton on the other.
But in this operation most of the casualties in the average trenches, both British and German, occurred.
For a time the operation of chairing Fenn up the steps occupied the active minds of the Kayites.
There was a humourist called Sir James of the Peak, who had been beat by a felony, who afterwards underwent the same operation from a third hand.
They say he gives for reason of his Quitting, their not having accepted one plan of operation that he has offered.
Most of the stations were in operation for several nights in the full moon periods of March, April, and May, keeping the moon under constant watch from twilight to dawn when conditions permitted.
The amount of migration is apparently seldom sufficient to produce heavy densities of transient species on the ground without the operation of concentrative factors such as ecological patterns and meteorological forces.
The sword and the tool perhaps, but the ship and the violin certainly, acted as if they acquired habits of operation by being used, and lost them by disuse.
Presently the lights of the newly energized machines began to waver in somewhat the manner of the ready-for-operation ones.
They probably do not remember anything, though patterns of operation are certainly retained in very great variety.
But it hit Stockholm and traffic jammed as the dynamic systems of cars in operation were destroyed.
This wave-type produced unpredictable surges of power in the transmitter, wherefore at least six transmitters should be built and linked together so that if one ceased operation another would instantly take up the task.
This operation is most vividly described by the Senior Chaplain of the 7th Division, the Rev.
It is obvious that these three States have numerous interests in common which make their co-operation very natural, if not indeed indispensable.
And you and the Muhammedans," I asked, "do you think that your co-operation has a good prospect of enduring?
But even if their resources had been scantier their co-operation would have been very welcome if they had satisfied the authorities that they were as non-political as the Americans.
Elizabeth was mounting her horse, in whichoperation Winthrop assisted her.
Mosby's first operation with his new force was in the pattern of the other two--the stealthy dismounted approach and sudden surprise of an isolated picket post.
First, he tried to obtain the co-operation of the Established Church.
There was the assured co-operation of the sects discontented with the Union, and a part of the very small army would be held fast by the sullen anger of the Irish.
The new order in which Protestantism is to become thus complete cannot be reached without the co-operation and help of Romanism.
Ryerson wished to establish a system such as was in operation in Germany--a system of compulsory payments by teachers in service sufficient to give a substantial pension for old age.
At this time only fifty-one Separate Schools were in operation in the whole of Upper Canada,[86] of which nearly one-half were Protestant.
Voluntary schools, wholly independent of Government control and closely allied with some church, were already in operation in populous centres in Upper Canada.
In 1859, in a report to the Government, Ryerson speaks further and says: "In regard to the Model Grammar Schools the buildings are completed and the school has been in operation several months and with the most gratifying success.
This gave three colleges with university powers in activeoperation in Upper Canada in 1843.
I can speak from my own experience as to the difficulties experienced in obtaining the co-operation of Parliament to have the necessary funds provided for the purpose of erecting this building.
There are many things connected with the operation of the Separate School Act which invite comment; but we think it best to postpone the expression of our views until they are matured by the experience of another year.
This operation takes place in a great covered vat about which are many pipes and stop-cocks.
Concerning the manner of operationin most parts of the works of nature: wherein, though we see the sensible effects, yet their causes are unknown, and we perceive not the ways and manner how they are produced.
For how much the being and operation of particular substances in this our globe depends on causes utterly beyond our view, is impossible for us to determine.
Horace Greeley visited California in the year 1859, and he wrote, "There ought to be two thousand good common schools in operation this winter, but I fear there will not be six hundred.
They seem to flatter themselves of a certain co-operation on the part of certain individuals domiciled or employed at St. Helena.
It expressed great pleasure at hearing that "the obstacles which seemed to hinder the co-operation of the forces under your Royal Highness are now removed.
They appointed Wellington generalissimo of all the Spanish armies; and, in a visit which he paid to the Cortes at Christmastide, he prepared for a real co-operation of Spanish forces in the next campaign.
I regard this co-operation as one of the surest supports of the cause which the Powers may once more be called on to defend by a war which can only offer chances of success unless sustained by the greatest and most unanimous measures.
In every state there should be enactments, backed up by vigorous public opinion and the co-operation of all citizens, providing severe punishment for those who go about begging alms on the pretense that they are deaf and dumb.
It is to be remembered that in Michigan and Wisconsin schools have, under the operation of the state law, been organized in comparatively small towns.
Perhaps also there is no sphere of religious endeavor where the need of mutual understanding and co-operation is so manifest as with the deaf.
He is, however, keenly mindful of all the co-operation that has been given him, and it would be most pleasant if it were possible to relate by name those who have been of aid.
I could not understand HOW there could be the slightest co-operation between this man and the other great ones of the earth that note commanded me to call upon for assistance in case I should need it.
The next operation was to shave them, and accordingly their faces were smeared over with a horrible mixture of shoemaker's wax, train oil and soot, most ungently laid on with a coarse painter's brush.
Mr. Linden's coat was removed, in the course of which operation a keen glance of the doctor's eye over at Reuben shewed that he recognized him; but then he attended to nothing but his patient.
The beneficial effects of inoculation in the case of the jailer's children, caused Mrs. Judson to be called upon to perform the operation upon all the children in the village.
They are temperamentalists--and from the spleen of a German musician it is said that in a successful operation you can cut a piece of temperament nine inches long and twenty-five ounces in weight.
Every possible disposition has been made for the entry of our relieving force or co-operation with their arriving on the other bank.
After the operation we were discussing how fine it would be for him to be able to ride still.
Sidenote: The orders of the President putting the civil Government of the United States into operation everywhere.
This substitute provided that the Tenure-of-Office Act should be suspended from operation until the next session of Congress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "operation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
