But nowe it is high time for vs to weigh our ancre, to hoise vp our sailes, to get cleare of these boistrous, frosty, and misty seas, and with all speede to direct our course for the milde, lightsome, temperate, and warme Atlantick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

French trot, everie step being ready to hoise him out of his saddle, hearing Giottos discreete answers to every ydle question he made (for indeede he was a very elegant speaker) began to peruse and surveigh him, even from the foote to the head, as we use to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron] Reference

He heard a clip-clopping hoise, and then around the corner came an archaic pony-trap, full of young people in what seemed at first sight to be fancy dress: the men in tight black trousers studded at the calf with silver buttons, their white shirts open almost to the waist; the women in wide skirts of frills and layers and bright colours, scarlet, emerald, gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satanic Verses]

Withouten further speech, we hoise our saile to sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe] Reference

Said: 'Seek no guide, raise you your mast, and hoise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tenth Book] Reference

The kids are playing in the hoise when one fo them puts her foot through the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

It is our part to hoise up sails, and wait for the wind, to use means, and wait on him in his way and order.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

"Hoist" was in Shakespeare's time the past participles of a verb "to hoise", which meant what "to hoist" does now: to lift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Mr. Holsey, of Hereford, for a considetable wager, undertook to ride his hoise from Worcester bridge to Hereford market-place in two hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sporting Magazine] Reference

The next day the 23 of this moneth (because that toward the South I had not found any commodious place for vs to inhabite, and to build a fort) I gaue commandement to weigh anker, and to hoise our sailes to saile toward the riuer of May, where wee arriued two days after, and cast anker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference

(M118) In the same place by occasion of contrary winds and foggie mists, we were constrained to stay, not being either able to come out of it, or hoise saile, till the 24 of the moneth: On which day we departed and came to a hauen on the Southerly coast about 80 leagues from the said Islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference

Item, if the fleet should happen to be scattered by weather, or other mishap, then so soon as one shall descry another, to hoise both topsails twice, if the weather will serve, and to strike them twice again; but if the weather serve not, then to hoise the maintopsail twice, and forthwith to strike it twice again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Voyage to Newfoundland. Paras. 1-49] Reference

But nowe it is high time for vs to weigh our ancre, to hoise vp our sailes, to get cleare of these boistrous, frosty, and misty seas, and with all speede to direct our course for the milde, lightsome, temperate, and warme Atlantick Ocean, ouer which the Spaniards and Portugales haue made so many pleasant prosperous and golden voyages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01] Reference

The Dutch Steersman, standing with a laden pistol presented to my breast, commanded mee to answer them in those words he should dictate to mee, bid mee answer them, of Falmoth, and to tell them wee came from Petuxine River in Virginia, and if they wanted anything if they would hoise out theire Boat and Come aboard wee would supply them, upon which they hoised out theire Boat and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents] Reference

5 Item, if the fleet should happen to be scattered by weather, or other mishap, then so soone as one shall descry another to hoise sailes twise, if the weather will serue, and to strike them twise againe; but if the weather serue not, then to hoise the maine top saile twise, and forthwith to strike it twise againe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference

Yet loe when death comes to ende our worke, when she stretcheth out her armes to pull vs into the porte, when after so many dangerous passages, and lothsome lodgings she would conduct vs to our true home and resting place: in steede of reioycing at the ende of our labour, of taking comfort at the sight of our land, of singing at the approch of our happie mansion, we would faine, (who would beleeue it?) retake our worke in hand, we would againe hoise saile to the winde, and willinglie vndertake our iourney anew.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier] Reference

Hanna u rock the hoise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture of Harrison Ford Getting Slimed at 2008 Kids’ Choice Awards] Reference

The past tense of "hoist" is hoise?.    From Wordnik.com.  [what's true - Anil Dash] Reference

A tedious voyage; if we sail should hoise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Third Book] Reference

That thou didst after see to hoise the sail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purgatory. Canto XXII] Reference

We'll quickly hoise Duke Humphrey from his seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Part of King Henry VI] Reference

We’ll quickly hoise Duke Humphrey from his seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act I. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

With cables; and with well-wreath'd halsers hoise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Book] Reference

We’ll quickly hoise Duke Humphrey from his seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

The next day being the 25. of the moneth, the weather was also stormie, darke, and windy, but yet we sailed a part of the day toward West North west, and in the euening wee out our selues athwart vntill the second quarter: when as we departed, then did we by our compasse know that we were Northwest and by West about seuen leagues and an halfe from the Cape of S. Iohn, and as wee were about to hoise saile, the winde turned into the Northwest, wherefore we went S.utheast, about 15. leagues, and came to three Ilands, two of which are as steepe and vpright as any wall, so that it was not possible to climbe them: and betweene them there is a little rocke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference