Presently a flag of truce was hoisted from the top of this fort. From Wordnik.com. [Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol] Reference
Freshly purged crawfish are hoisted from a purging tank at Southeast Texas Crawfish Farm. From Wordnik.com. [Lenten "mudbugs"] Reference
I daresay she put her petard out there to be hoisted, which is what she's being paid to do. From Wordnik.com. [Who's The Dummy, Mummy?] Reference
He dare not make sail lest his trick should be detected and a signal of recall hoisted on the flagship. From Wordnik.com. [Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes] Reference
When I stop to think about it, I would use "hoisted". From Wordnik.com. ["You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,' it’s still gonna stink."] Reference
I daresay she put her petard out there to be hoisted, which is what she’s being paid to do. From Wordnik.com. [Who’s The Dummy, Mummy? | Her Bad Mother] Reference
The convicts were suspended by iron chains to beams which alternately "hoisted" and. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4] Reference
She picked up the baby and hoisted it over her shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Delivery] Reference
Executive producer Don Hewitt hoisted a toast to Wallace. From Wordnik.com. [Ticking And Screaming] Reference
I thought that Merkin's essay hoisted us on our own petard. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Why We Need a "Practical Psychoanalysis"] Reference
Fifth get hoisted, get yanked out of proud dark photographed bays. From Wordnik.com. [Life with Fish] Reference
One day I was hoisted into the rigging to grease the pulleys, by hand. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
She grabbed the ladder and he hoisted her with his hands and shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Why'd You Come Back?] Reference
Last Tuesday officials hoisted a 50-ton, 70-foot piece of World Trade Center steel. From Wordnik.com. [Sept. 11 Memorial On Track To Open Next Year] Reference
Jason smiled as disarmingly as he could, and hoisted his beer glass toward the door. From Wordnik.com. [BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA] Reference
In Palm Beach County, crowds hoisted mock campaign signs for the Sore-Loserman ticket. From Wordnik.com. [Full Court Press] Reference
Brands such as Pontiac and Saturn were hoisted away by the great tow truck in the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Highlights from Consumer Reports test track] Reference
Within what seemed like seconds, he hoisted himself up to my level and stood before me. From Wordnik.com. [Songbird] Reference
Supporters of the suit hoisted banners that read "No More Lies" and "We Need a Hospital.". From Wordnik.com. [St. Vincent's Hospital Wasted Over $100 Million, Lied About Debt: Lawsuit] Reference
He has unflinchingly slashed budgets, curbed government salaries and hoisted interest rates. From Wordnik.com. [Lula's Balancing Act] Reference
I hoisted my leg over the saddle and encountered the firm midway pedal and stood down on it. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
Mario hoisted Shay's enormous tanned breasts out of her small sundress, and up into the moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [Things I Should Have Done - #2] Reference
Cradling itself in a puddle of venom along the pavement of sleeping hoisted by ones prickly petard. From Wordnik.com. [Berkeley Stations] Reference
Zagi, a lanky 21-year-old rebel, hoisted his rocket-propelled grenade launcher into firing position. From Wordnik.com. ['We Believe In Our Guns'] Reference
Yet its fortunes have fallen so far that management has hoisted the white flag and put it up for sale. From Wordnik.com. [Borders, Barnes And Noble Stock Dying: Amazon's eBook To Blame?] Reference
A Christmas tree was so big they hoisted it from outside-later prompting a lawsuit from an angry neighbor. From Wordnik.com. [One Bluff Too Many] Reference
A panning shot of Twain's bedroom takes too long: "We've been hoisted on the petard of our own ponderousness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story Of Jazz] Reference
It's what happened to the Australian conservatives who got hoisted on their own petard as enemies of the family. From Wordnik.com. [The Case for Paid Family Leave] Reference
Says one official, "So far, Wen hasn't hoisted a banner for himself, and he will not do so until he is fully in power.". From Wordnik.com. [The People's Technocrat] Reference
Or more likely for these parts, would've finished off the job, hoisted it into their trunk, and had dinner for a week. From Wordnik.com. [Atonement] Reference
Again, though, the refs hoisted a flag; New Zealand nipped a buoy at the finish and that infraction cost the boat the race. From Wordnik.com. [A Duel In The Sun] Reference
By the glow of the fire in the crater, Lt. Joe Ward, 56, of Ladder Co. 6, found Shea, and other firefighters hoisted him gently to safety. From Wordnik.com. [A Shaken City's Towering Inferno] Reference
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