method of operating
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Bleriot used the Deperdussin method of operating the ailerons with a wheel mounted atop the elevator stick.
From Time Magazine Archive
The patent covered the peculiar method of operating a spring-looper in combination with an eye-pointed needle to form a single chainstitch, but whether machines of this single-thread variety were manufactured is unknown.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers
A fair wind, or the discovery of the method of operating that Oriental engine, might insure them a safe voyage home.
From Panther Eye by Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson)
In the morning, about six o'clock, the knockings came, and answered to questions as usual, but in so different a sound, that it was very apparent this method of operating was a fresh contrivance.
From Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed by Taylor, Joseph
This is an exceedingly good method of operating in the lower third of the thigh, in muscular patients the very best, and in all cases only equalled in value by Carden's method.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
