“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”
“The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.”
“He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”
“One operates in the now.”
“It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.”
“A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound.”