put into order

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At this time, all our waste-cloths, pennants, brass sheaves, and other matters, were sent aboard, and our ship was put into order to receive our general, whose return was soon expected.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

All which were put into order, and secured in excellent wainscot presses, by order of the house of peers, in the year 1719 and 1720.

From London in 1731 by Gonzales, Don Manoel

I've had some experience of keeping within limits, and if I can lend you a hand over getting your house put into order without wasting money, I shall be glad to do so.

From The Honour of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald

The entire government must be built up from the beginning, and all its machinery put into order.

From Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans by Baldwin, James

Historians are in quest of laws of development and of generalisations that shall unravel the complexity of human culture, as physicalvii and biological generalisations have put into order our knowledge of the phenomena of nature.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul