put in working order
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When the station on the Thomson was put in working order, the Imlays exchanged it for one owned by P. P. King, which was situated between their two stations in the Monaro district.
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane
It must have been put in working order quite recently.
From The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet A Detective Story by Burton Egbert Stevenson
It also takes care of itself, requires no re-baiting or setting after once put in working order, and is sure death to its prisoners.
From Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by William Hamilton Gibson
As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester, unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
And it was by my forethought—I say it with diffidence—that the drawbridge was put in working order.
From Francezka by Molly Elliot Seawell
