excellent order

Example Sentences

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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.

The beauty of spiritual realities is of course of a higher, nobler and more excellent order than that of the realities of sense.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Convinced by this last argument, I made my way back to the street; and as I passed the Lawrence grounds I was impressed again by their extent and excellent order.

From That Affair at Elizabeth by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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