977 examples of hoisted in sentences

He was hoisted aboard.

"On Sunday, September 27th, after all the necessary preparations had been made, the white flag was hoisted.

So, long about midnight, I 'd got ter talk with all these fellers, an' when LaGrasse went down below ter take a snooze in the cabin, we hoisted them Dutchmen on deck, flung a couple

By the time we had hoisted the jib, and made all secure, we were out far enough to feel the full force of the stiff breeze, the Adele careening until her rail was awash, the white canvas soaring above us against the misty blue of the sky.

On this occasion Admiral Mayo's flag was hoisted in the Broke and subsequently presented to him as a souvenir of the first occasion of a United States Admiral having been under fire in a British man-of-war.

'[530] We approached her, and she hoisted her colours.

And so, having gotten in our three jury lower-masts, we hoisted up the foreyard to the main, to act as our mainyard, and did likewise with the topsail-yard to the fore, and after that, we sent up the t'gallant-yard to the mizzen.

At certain points the tumult declines; flags are hoisted from the tops of masts, the large sails are shaken out, and aided by the breeze some vessels get loose, sail out, and desert the field of battle.

Next morning at 9 A.M., they advanced to the escalade of the city walls, and proceeded, with again very slight opposition, to the Magazine Hill, on which they hoisted the British and French flags.

As we landed, all the vessels in the river hoisted English and French flags, and fired salutes.

The Japanese flag was then hoisted on the 'Emperor,' and saluted by the 'Retribution' and 'Furious' with twenty-one guns each.

The 'Lee' on this hoisted her white flag in vain; seven more shots were fired from the forts at her before she returned them.

On the under frame is fixed a hopper, into which is thrown, either by hand or from a concrete mixer running upon the rails, the material to be hoisted, and from which it gravitates into a narrow channel, through which pass the buckets (attached to the chain) with a shovel-like action.

A boat was immediately hoisted out; an officer belonging to the brig, whose name was Mr. Lemaigre, had embarked in it, in order to have the pleasure of taking us himself from this fatal machine.

The two sails were hoisted in order to strand more speedily upon the coast, every body reached the shore, the boat filled with water and was abandoned.

Immediately we hoisted a sail which carried us through the other breakers.

She lowered her sails and hoisted out a boat.

When they finally started they were like unto so many huge cheeses hoisted on stilts.

At daybreak, therefore, the captain ordered the launch to be hoisted out.

As they did so, Legionaries hoisted the plank aboard, with its tackle, and lashed it to the waiting chocks.

In four minutes the men had safely landed in the lower gallery once more, and the plane was being hoisted by davits and made fast on the upper platform, known as the take-off, which served as a runway for planes leaving the ship or alighting thereon.

Demosthenes De Grapionhe who, tradition says, first hoisted the flag of France over the little fortseemed to think he ought to have a chance, and being accorded it, cast an astonishingly high number; but Epaminondas cast a number higher by one (which Demosthenes never could quite understand), and got a wife who had loved him from first sight.

The sailors hoisted, and the front part of the little boat began to rise, the stern plowing and foaming through the water, and the man still in it, with his trunk under his arm.

They 'hoisted away' until I began to think that the poor man would actually tumble out behind.

However, after a while, they hoisted up the stern of the boat, and he got safely on board.

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