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I cannot but think, therefore, that this simple but ingenious discovery will prove a valuable addition to our stock of photographic manipulatory processes.

From Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

But whether there should be debentures and mortgages or preference shares, or suchlike manipulatory distinctions, or interest in any shape or form, I am inclined to doubt.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

His process of memorizing, always observant, exploratory and manipulatory, differs in detail according to the memory task that he expects later to perform.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

As to the manipulatory details of this process, the paper is floated on the solution in a dark room and hung up to dry, and then preserved from light in a portfolio.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

It must have manipulatory organs, such as this being very obviously did have—organs very much like his own.

From Anything You Can Do ... by Garrett, Randall