<Raise, lift, heave, hoist, erect, rear, elevate, exalt, enhance.

He, learning that she survived, stood up as if he had still the power to live; but a great gush of blood from his wound made him despair of rescue and he besought those present to carry him to the monument and to hoist him by the ropes that were hanging there to elevate stone blocks.

"Why, if it'd been me in charge now, I reckon I'd have gone to all sorts of trouble rigging up some sort of block-and-tackle, so as to hoist him up; but you just knock down a part of the wall, and there you are, as neat as wax.

When it is daylight we will hoist a flag of distress, which will be much more likely to be seen than anything that can flutter from those little boats.

And again Kaetheli began with full tones: "'I stood on a high mountain And looked into a vale, A little ship came swimming Three counts did hoist the sail.'

All right, you fellers, I'll make one to give this Feisul boy a hoist!" CHAPTER II "Atcha, Jimgrim sahib!

Certainly, when I was there, the war-party, the party of the "Mercury," was not in the ascendant, unless in the sense of having been "hoist with its own petard" when it cried out for immediate hostilities.

They carry everything on their heads, and usually it requires two other women or girls to hoist the heavy burden to the head of the third.

The jib is 69 feet in the hoist, and 70 in the foot.

"What do they want to hoist that huge Red Cross flag up there for, where any airman can see it?

"Clap on extra tackle and call all hands to hoist away," suggested one of the audience.

As soon as he, the captain, Bok, and one of the men were on deck, which sloped acutely, Bob called to the ladies to say that he would fetch a chair, or something to serve as one, and hoist them up.

"For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer hoist with his own petar.

He was overreached by his own shrewdness; and the hitherto unlucky "bulls," who had had small cause to laugh, thought that it was "sport to see the engineer Hoist with his own petard," better even than to have tossed him on their own horns.

In the first week of March, vice-admiral Mitchell was ordered to repair forthwith to Spithead, and, taking several ships (eleven in number) under his command, hoist the blue flag at the fore-topmast head of one of them.

As soon as this wind goes down a bit we'll hoist the small sails and head for the nearest land.

We must make some kind of a distress signal and hoist it where it will be seen.

"Did you hoist the signal?" asked the captain.

Now, Ned Scudd and Tim Flynn, step the mast and hoist the sail and we'll see how our craft behaves under canvas.

"I wish we could hoist some big signal.

"We've craft enough up there, to hoist her in and dub her down to a jolly-boat's size, in a single watch.

She was ill in bed with a fever when the Germans set fire to the placebarely giving us time to hoist her into the cart.

Our howitzer-ropes came into play to hoist and haul.

Just like his character, Sir, all hoist; and with little or no head to them.

There is no equalling, after all, a good, wholesome, honest English top-sail; which is neither too narrow in the head, nor too deep in the hoist; with a bolt-rope of exactly the true size, robands and earings and bowlines that look as if they grew there, and sheets that neither nature nor art could alter to advantage.