excellent order

Example Sentences

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The pieces thus borrowed were eighteen pounders, all in excellent order and well mounted on suitable carriages.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

For three years these nuns dwelt at Helmstedt, beloved of all and bringing the place to excellent order.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

The British navy was in excellent order, but the many calls made on it for the protection of world-wide commerce and colonial possessions caused the operations in the Channel to be somewhat languid.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

All the appointments are in excellent order; and the very material of which their uniform is made, being so much less common than usual, helps to produce this effect.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton

They saw the glare of the camp-fires and moved more slowly, with greater caution, in excellent order, until they had all but surrounded the bad-medicine camp-ground.

From The Red Mustang by Stoddard, William O.