Hoisted

Examples

• And he was hoisted, first by the mechanism which was used to hoist the arc light but this broke-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• So the diver hoisted it up, and was much disappointed on opening it to find no pearls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In the Long Island Sound experiments the diver was hoisted to the surface in eighty-seven seconds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Traction is then made on the chains controlling the jaws, which close; the grapple is hoisted to the surface and its contents discharged into scows alongside the dredge. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He hoisted it on to the vehicle, which was a sort of car, and then I got in; before he shut me up, I asked him how far it was to Thornfield. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Early next morning their numerous chests and boxes were hoisted on deck and lowered to waiting small boats for transportation to shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He captured seven guns and, moving on, hoisted the National flag over the rebel capital of Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I then found myself hoisted up, by degrees, at least three feet higher than I was before. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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