He proceeded then to demand "that the emblem of sovereignty of the United States be hoisted over the City Hall, Mint, and Custom-House by meridian this day.
In thirteen minutes after firing the first gun the enemy hoisted a light and fired an off-gun as a signal that he had been beaten.
An officer and some marines remained at the Custom-House to guard the United States flag hoisted over it until the land-forces under General Butler arrived.
The "Numancia" hoisted her boats and stood to the westward.
They also saw the admiral's flag on the "Numancia" lowered, only to be hoisted again on the foremast of the new-comer.
At precisely noon the white flag was lowered from the mast-head of the Spanish flag-ship and the Spanish flags were hoisted by all of the vessels.
However, after a while, they hoisted up the stern of the boat, and he got safely on board.
They 'hoisted away' until I began to think that the poor man would actually tumble out behind.
Where did he sail before he hoisted the Jolly Roger?
When the Amanda moved away from the side of the pirate vessel Revenge she hoisted all sail, and got away over the sea as fast as the prevailing wind could take her.
His comrades thought the advice good, hoisted their sail, and in the night-time took to the open sea with all speed.
When the sails were hoisted he steered out over Westfjord, and went to sea, keeping south along the land so far off that the hill-tops were half sunk, and soon the land altogether was sunk from view by the sea.
Karle and his men had hoisted sail, and were come a long way before Thorer got under way.
Now when Harek came farther through the Sound, and past the fleet, he raised the mast, hoisted sail, and set up his gilded vane.
As soon as the king had made known this resolution all his men followed it, turned their ship's bows, and hoisted sail.
When they had rowed a short way from the island the brothers hoisted the sail, while Harek was seated at the helm; and they sailed away from the island.
When the Thing had closed the people had gone to their vessels, and made ready to depart; and as fast as they were ready they hoisted sail and set out, so that most of them were under sail.
As soon as Karle and his men were on board they struck their tents, cast loose their land ropes, hoisted their sails, and their ship in all haste went to sea.
Then Thorer was hanged; but when he was hoisted up the gallows tree he was so heavy that his neck gave way, and the body fell down to the ground; for Thorer was a man exceedingly stout, both high of stature and thick.
Then Olaf had all the rudders unshipped and hoisted all sail aloft.
When the sails were hoisted they represented, as it were, the dragon's wings; and the ship was the handsomest in all Norway.
The sails were hoisted and all the small vessels, sailing fastest, got out to sea before the others.
Most of the islands of the Archipelago hoisted the standard of the Cross; and the strongest of them armed and sent out cruisers to prey on the commerce of the enemy.
The Coral hoisted sail, and, heading out to sea, rapidly sped away over the Pacific.
Since the sea was very calm, Hyde Brazzier proposed that the schooner should be taken outside and anchored directly over the pearl-oyster bed, so that sail could be hoisted as soon as they were ready.
Assisted by Snowball, he soon raised it out of the water, and hoisted it to the horizontal platform, on which they had placed themselves.
Coromantee, with Lilly Lalee hoisted upon his left shoulder, was cleaving the water in the same direction.
The cask of water was carefully hoisted aboard the boat,--as also the smaller cask containing the precious "Canary.
She's first-rate at guessing," said Farrar to me as we fled precipitately to see that the trunks were hoisted into the basket.
The powder-monkeys tumbled over each other in their hurry to provide cartridges, and grape and canister and doubleheaded shot werehoisted up from below.
Sometimes a favorable wind sprang up, and wehoisted the sail.
Try fair means, and if they do not answer, the poor wretches must be hoisted on deck with ropes.
Then a sail was hoisted for steering purposes, and the men gave a hearty cheer as they began to drop down the river with their prize.
Then a second sail was hoisted a little, and the helm being seized, her course was altered so as to send her to the west.
The second prize was visited twice, and in addition to Taters, Grote and Dance were left on board, to take it in turns at the wheel and manage the little sail, hoisted now to help the steering and ease the strain on the tow-rope.
In effect the boat was slowly pulled alongside, and amidst a great deal of shouting and noise, the prisoners could hear the men helped on board, and the boat hoisted into its place.
To deceive him, we hoisted the English flag, and fired a shot.
In consequence of this, our vessel was hoisted up as if by pulleys, and then thrown on its side with such a fearful crash, that we expected every moment to see it go to pieces.
The captain weighed anchor, sailed down upon her and when he supposed himself sure of his prey, fired off a cannon; the brig hoisted the English flag and lay to.
When the boat was within a short distance of us, it stopped and hoisted a white flag in token of peace; the captain did the same, and the boat then approached perfectly unsuspiciously.
When he saw that he was thus cut off from the land, he hoisted his lower sails, fired a gun, and run up the Spanish flag, as if he had been a vessel of war.
Later in the day the desert column arrived; the German flag was hauled down, and the Union Jack was hoisted in its stead.
Again there was a bloodless victory, and the British flag was hoisted above the chief port, which was left in the possession of British troops.
She then hoisted British colours and entered the harbour, in which several ships could be seen, with an unknown cruiser well in front of them.
On November 28 a British flotilla supported by a cruiser entered the harbour, and after a parley the governor of the town hoisted the white flag.
Before the voyage ended the engineer was hoisted on his own petard.
We hoisted out our pinnace, and lowered down our cutters--the other men-of-war doing the same.
In the meantime, the remainder of the ship's company hoisted out and lowered down four boats, which were manned and armed to storm the battery.
At eight o'clock the colours and pennant werehoisted half-mast high.
Stock of every kind was brought on board, and the large boats hoisted and secured.
In half-an-hour we were alongside of her, when she hoisted American colours, and proved to be a brigantine laden up to her gunwale, which was not above a foot out of the water.
When she was within three miles of the harbour, she lowered the jolly boat, the only one she had left, and it pulled in-shore with a flag of truce hoisted at the bows.
We had no other chance; our boat was under the water, being hoisted up on the side to leeward.
We hoistedthe foresail, flew before the wind and tide, and in quarter of an hour we were at Mutton Cove, when the marine officer expressed his wish to land.
We were all delighted when our signal was hoisted to "part company," as we anticipated plenty of prize-money under such an enterprising captain.
We made the private signal: she hoisted Swedish colours, and kept away a couple of points to close with us.
The captain tacked the ship, and stood out again, until the boats were hoisted out, and all ready to pull on shore and storm the battery.
After the boats were hoisted out, the guns were lowered down into them and shipped in the bows of the boats.
On the top of the main building at the College was a statue of Washington, and over this statue some of the students hoisted a palmetto flag.
At Sharpsburg, while lying down, holding his gray mares, a shell tore a trench close alongside of him and hoisted him horizontally into the air.
The shell tore a trench alongside of him andhoisted him horizontally from the ground.
Before the flags had got halfway to the mizzen peak, they were pulled down and hoisted properly, and the men of the 'Shannon' ceased their fire.
To be short, there was no man idle, nor any labour spent in vain; so that presently the galley was ready, and into it they all leaped hastily, and hoisted sail.
The paddle-wheels were of wrought-iron, and were so attached that they could be detached and hoisted on board when it was desired.
He had risen nobly to the occasion; for he had even hoisted his bunting and brought with him the local brass band.
The engineer slowly hoisted his long figure through the breast-high doorway, dragged his legs under him, then with extraordinary agility swung to the pier, his teeth shining like ivory in his black face.
An image formed of a wheatsheaf, and dressed in a white frock and coloured ribbons, is hoisted on a pole.
In this way a large cart or wagon load is hoisted on to the stack in three or four "forkfuls.
The American flag was hoisted on the fort and saluted with a volley of musketry.
The flag was now brought on and hoisted on the lodge of Black Cat.
He laughed again when, from his elevated position, he saw that though the boat had been hoisted on board, four men had been told off to stand by the davits in order to lower it again at the first sign of mishap.
That flag had been mournfully lowered and put away on Tom's disappearance, but now it was hoisted once more; and as they looked, the new comer hoisted it and lowered it, causing it to rise and fall rapidly before their eyes.
That the anchor was being hoistedthey already knew, but why it was they did not.
Then he roused the mate, and they raised the anchor and hoisted the sails.
It was a signal-staff, with something that looked like a flag hoisted half mast high.
Johnston's, but all new boys were hoisted with perfect impartiality.
According to the custom of the school, Paul would be hoisted at the mid-day recess of the following day, and the boys looked forward eagerly to the struggle for which they had been preparing.
So soon as this was done, a pull all together on their part hoisted him up from the ground, three feet at least, and then his legs were seized, lest he should be tempted to kick.
But the might of numbers prevailed at length, and, after some minutes' further struggling, he was hoisted in due form, and pounded until the boys were fairly weary.
My wife succeeded in collecting us some boards and planks, which, with her assistance, and the aid of the pulley, we hoisted up.
We were now loaded as far as prudence would allow us; so, attaching our raft firmly to the boat, we hoisted our sail, and made slowly to the shore.
With their boat half-full of water, they pulled under the lee of the Laird, hooked on their boat's falls, and were hoisted up with a run.
I could see the Laird right ahead, five miles out to sea, and the Chinamen hoisted a great white flag at the masthead, which flew as stiff as mill-board to leeward, and made straight for her.
Having re-hoisted my boats, I renewed the pursuit, and at 2 was overhauling her fast.
We could see them tumbling over each other in their hurry to scramble out of the forts, and after we'd ceased firing someone hauled down their colours and hoisted a white flag as big as a sheet.
He called out in a squeaky voice for another rope, and lashed it to something, which we two and some men who came to helphoisted up.
But very likely some Asiatic savage hoisted a wild beast's skin on a stick over some very simple sort of raft tens of thousands of years ago.
She hoisted her umbrella and lunged into the blind wet till she had reached the shelter of the empty village.
We hoisted the boys out and arranged them on chairs, while Wontner changed into uniform, but stopped when he saw me taking off my jacket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoisted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
