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1. Even this, however, would be more than enough but they dared not hoist even a rag of sail upon it
2. He made a last ditch dash for freedom, trying to hoist himself onto the thicker part of the branch
3. Brice was amazed to see that operating the hoist was a gray bearded Boulder Dwarf -- whom he quickly recognized as the very same being who had nearly plowed him over when he had first come upon the Wayward Inn
4. Ben awkwardly managed to hoist himself up a little bit
5. Hoist me up, Wyll!”
6. Day dawned sending shafts of warm sunlight, through the layers of mist on the horizon, probing the earth for suitable points to lock into and hoist he huge fiery ball into the sky
7. Mike knew many men like that, South Boston, Irish longshoremen and for Mike they filled out the picture of William: surely, his father would be lyrical and of course, brawny; he would be a man after a day’s work to hoist a cold beer with his mates in a neighborhood tavern
8. on a new deadly weapon, and had been hoist by their own petard
9. She got the pilot into the helicopter hoist basket, and they both were lifted to safety by the well trained crew
10. Captain Waters chronicled the courage and skillful aviation techniques of amphibious helicopter pilots in countless missions, endorsed the seaworthiness of the successful aircraft, regretted the termination of their use, and insisted that the amphibious choppers increased the safety of crews and rescue swimmers, and asserted that with the amphibious vehicles, and the potential failure of the contemporary hoist mechanism, recovery success rates would be enhanced (Waters, pp
11. With the advent of long ranged rescue helicopters which can not land on the water, the role of rescue swimmers and the rescue-basket hoist procedures became essential
12. The crew attempted to hook on to one of the three-ton ice-covered buoys to hoist it to the deck of the buoy tender
13. Even then, as we tried to hoist the guy into one of the boats,
14. Each aircraft carried a pilot, co-pilot, rescue swimmer, and hoist operator/flight mechanic: the crew trained as first responders
15. might hoist him out of the water and into safety
16. Coast Guard personnel respond to imperiled ice victims by going over and off the ice in specially designed craft, and in helicopters equipped with hoist systems and rescue baskets
17. While I connected up the grinder to the tractor, Fred pushed a wagonload of corn over to the hopper and hooked it up to a rope and pulley hoist suspended from the ceiling
18. Mitch to help hoist it from the bed and right it under the maul of the sand bin
19. Trask's truck wasn't in the drive, but perhaps he'd decided to hoist a few with the gang at work, unusual as that would be
20. Not to worry, I am sure that one night he will try to hoist himself off the commode but there won't be anything left of him!
21. It took a second trip to hoist Fangoz, whose rusty club alone weighed more than a large troll
22. other two men struggled to hoist it up on their end
23. This is the hoist
24. " He went back to the hoist, and waved to them to join him
25. “You two there, what are ye, daft? Hoist the mainsail!”
26. Once there, I struggled to hoist the cadaver up unto
27. Warrant, be ready with that hoist
28. He allowed Andrew to hoist him high into
29. their survivors would hoist
30. Like now for instance as she stood back from the river fighting the revulsion that swept through her as Yvonne Barns’ yellow VW was hauled from the water, its tail end hitched to the hydraulic hoist of the recovery vehicle
31. A beautiful car, but an ugly sight as the jib, extended at a forty five degree angle over the creek, waited as the hoist ground to a halt
32. Aaron hands me a cup of coffee as I hoist myself up into his truck
33. Kairo grabs TK’s other arm and the two hoist TK up to his
34. that I’d need to be able to pull people up in to the air on a hoist
35. retrieve Damon and you can hoist him up ”
36. used the hilt to hoist up his battered body
37. “Prepare to hoist the sail!” Erik blasted
38. It’s thus men come to hoist themselves on their own petard, and deservedly at that, so it seems
39. If the rotary motion of the shaft of a vertically mounted drum of a drum hoist (lifting device, crane, etc
40. True, the faith of Allah needed a band of blind believers to help Muhammad achieve his ambition to hoist the flag of Islam on the Kabah
41. They throw their arms around Loki and then hoist him onto their shoulders
42. I’m told he rarely leaves his bed---a stream of attendants cart food in and garbage out---there is even a hoist mounted to leverage him over the bedpan!” She wrinkled her nose
43. The rough-hewn timber frame of the hoist creaked and moaned as Ilian and Shara strained against the harness, and the chain clanked and clattered where it wound tight over the series of pulleys
44. He spun the hand wheel in, pinning the piece between pincers, and when satisfied he cinched it all down, released the hoist mechanism and patted the horses away
45. Hoist must be completely lowered after
46. She walked over to the rock, and tried to hoist herself up with her arms, to no luck
47. If he could just hang on a few seconds more, he could hoist himself up and find room to stretch his legs
48. “Do you think I could hoist you up?” The man looked confused
49. Then he moved on to the future, his future, in which he saw himself in the yard of his own house with its familiar metal clothes hoist, the flower beds and the shrubs
50. "Don't make me hoist you over my shoulder," he said
1. She hoisted the babe on her shoulder and pointed at the statue
2. Strutting back into the bedroom, Liam hoisted the putter over his shoulder and heaved the bottle to his lips
3. The cage was fastened and then hoisted
4. into the grasp of surf and sea currents, they hoisted
5. The crowd gave a polite cheer as two chairs were hoisted onto the table and Aristethes and his son were seen to scramble up and begin to play and sing
6. He hoisted his, "To the Ohio," he said, and they clinked
7. His second run was a perfectly done simple vault with a grandstanding one-handed pat on the bull’s rump as he sailed over that drew more catcalls and hoisted flaggons from his buddies
8. He hoisted the pack on to his shoulders
9. As he hoisted himself towards safety, he heard the splitting of wood
10. He was constantly crisscrossing the soon to be enclosed space, apparently unfazed by the ten foot fir poles he hoisted above his head and carried much like a waiter with a tray of food, or a drum major leading a parade band
11. He then opened a crate next one of the lumber piles and hoisted up what looked like the cousin of the pump in their kitchen
12. Hartman hoisted the extinguisher once again and swung it at Roman
13. He twirled her a couple times more to the stage where he hoisted the large cup above his head and the crowd again shouted out cheers, indicating it was theirs
14. Stenworth hoisted Heather off the ground by her cuffs
15. Wrapping both hands around “Hell’s Bane’s” handle, he hoisted the shimmering brick of crystal to his shoulder and continued, “To be sure, our ancestors had a plan
16. "The case you mean, well its Tom Foolery's latest gimmick samples I expect," Fizzicist drew closer, "If I could use your barn we might see what is in it eh!" Clothier tied the well rope to the bottle neck and lowered it back down the well, then hoisted the suitcase onto his broad shoulders and lumbered into the barn
17. They hoisted their backpacks which carried tents, ground sheets, bags and clothing
18. A father hoisted his little
19. Without hesitation, he grabbed his pack, tightened the connectors, hoisted it on to his back and returned to the trail
20. He hoisted himself over the fence and dropped to the ground
21. Scott hoisted his rucksack off the luggage holder feeling a substantial weight that was not lessened by any antigrav aid, so commonly used these days; it would provide the necessary exercise to leg muscles underused for this
22. I hoisted sails, trimmed sails, dropped sails, swabbed decks, greased pulleys, polished brass, secured cargo, and hauled supplies
23. He pulled himself out of the bike-frame, clambered back up to the path with the bike hoisted on his shoulder
24. But as he probed and poked I blacked out again so I missed being ferried out and hoisted onto the hospital ship in fact the next time I came round they had operated on me and I saw a beautiful face looking down at me
25. The last thing I saw of him they had hoisted him up and were carrying him off with blood pouring from his smashed mouth accompanied by gurgling and whistling sounds as he tried to breath
26. hoisted the flag of Oahu
27. “Any way I tapped him on the scull and me and Dusty hoisted him up between us and dragged him back to our lines”
28. The other ship hoisted the Stars and Stripes, and the
29. Tanya groaned as he hoisted her out of the narrow chamber
30. Saldon, on Staron's orders, hoisted the canvas sail and tied it off then helped Staron stow the oar safely against the inside of the hull, in its stowage
31. Once outside the breakwater, the mainsail was hoisted and the boat sailed northwards
32. The King climber back into his chair that had been ghosted to the edge of the awning and was hoisted above the crowds and the procession started toward a cluster of obviously royal tents just beyond the rise
33. At that, Dorro hoisted himself up to fetch Mrs
34. Dorro and Forgo each got a grip on one of his arms and hoisted Rufus into a chair
35. The flag had hardly been unfurled outside the temporary Headquarters when it was suddenly hoisted to half-mast
36. Larkey reached the final longboat and hoisted Longleaf within, through with what power, she did not know
37. One hoisted the corpse over his shoulder and carried it out as if it were a grain sack
38. The bouncers hoisted him up first
39. When carrying one poor lad over, a bullet passed through the lifeless body, and a number of wounded were killed by sharpshooters in the trees, despite the Red Cross flag that was hoisted over the station
40. He hoisted himself to his elbow, and wistfully sniffed the fumes of
41. William ignored the noise of gunfire and fallen men, shut out visions of flags hoisted high above horses’ heads
42. What the hell was going on up there? With a pounding in his chest and ringing in his ears, he hoisted himself off the ladder onto a tiny landing
43. The engine block hoisted out of the well, and suspended by a
44. Instead, they hoisted the deceased off the forest floor, avoiding in-ground burial at all costs
45. With this, Sephiroth hoisted
46. She hoisted it up and went into the only other room, closing the door firmly behind her
47. This was the hand that had climbed mountains, pressed the trigger and hoisted the tricolor
48. Before she could turn the machine off, her grandmother hoisted a leg to slide on behind her
49. Two men hoisted a ladder while the
50. Bubba nodded, hoisted his bags and walked out
1. "Brandon!" they cried, hoisting him up on their shoulders
2. "You hear about the asteroid?" Taktor asked once they were settled into a hoisting rhythm
3. hoisting himself up onto the scribe’s stool
4. He retrieved and put on his own shoes, and then, hoisting the bag of clothes onto his back, climbed the stairs to the fourth floor
5. Crowe, a Coast Guard lieutenant commander in Vietnam, told Larzelere that in addition to rescues over land, “Coast Guard aviators handled missions at sea when pilots of other armed services were not trained in overwater navigation, and not familiar with the intricacies of hoisting from a rolling ship” (Larzelere, p
6. Winch: hoisting engine secured to the deck which haul lines by turns around a drum
7. tools to the end of the rope and climbing it, and then hoisting
8. were behind me; I only jumped onto it and started hoisting
9. Dither squirmed slightly, before hoisting his chin up defiantly
10. We had eaten, boiled our water supplies, a fine stack of saplings and branches had been collected, and I was gathering my energy preparatory to boosting Vera up so she could secure the rope and begin hoisting building materials
11. hoisting the Nepbal Cup high above their heads
12. “I ain’t letting you run off,” said Ma, hoisting Bryony off the ground
13. Hoisting Bryony onto her broad shoulder, Ma stomped out of the sty and into the farmyard
14. Matthew had arranged for the police to interview Glaze at eleven o"clock, so we had to get our skates on! Lugging a half-dead body out the gate and hoisting him into the back of the ute might have raised a few local eyebrows, so I changed into a pair of MacFife"s trousers and a blazer, wandered down the hill to Glaze"s place, drove the ute back to the car park and swapped it for the Porsche, which carried me rather more firmly than I"d expected, back to MacFife"s villa
15. Jarek followed by squeezing himself into a narrow cleft, then pressing hands and feet against the sides while hoisting himself little by little to the top
16. After hoisting themselves up, the young men collapsed onto a springy floor of woven palm fronds
17. It centred on a tradition of bringing a captured male mountain goat known as a puck goat into the main street and hoisting it by ropes into a cage that was placed on top of a large tower
18. # Hoisting: To lift and carry up items with the help of some mechanical devices
19. Lezura successfully called out Donnowarru, hoisting the box in the air as he wizard materialized from the mist of honoi
20. As she was hoisting behind her the merchant’s wife, the man accompanying the family crumbled to the ground, a butcher’s knife in his chest
21. called out, hoisting his rifle to his shoulder
22. Hoisting her over his shoulder he went back into his room, grabbed his clothes and bag, and still carrying her, he strode along the landing to the cummerbund man’s room
23. away, he was on one knee, hoisting the dead animal and shaking off congealed sand
24. Keisha hoisting her lanky arms onto her hips
25. She had to quieten herself before hoisting herself through the hatch into the kitchen
26. Incredible! This man was almost sixty years old and he was hoisting a 120 kilogram sack of wheat, a feat that even the strongest champions would find difficult to achieve
27. D) Do not overload hoisting or lifting device
28. Hoisting gustin upright, with my shoulder under his arms, I called over to Clemency, "C'mon
29. Hoisting himself up, Mitch perched himself precariously on the wobbly gate, straddling the three strands of barbed wire that ran along the post
30. Hoisting his torso and legs to safety, he turned to watch the crippled elevator buzz past
31. Don worked all morning, hoisting hundred-pound bags from pallets and dumping them into the mixer
32. Hoisting the bag, the old man moved into the middle of the square and resumed his bin searching
33. “I’m sorry I said that to you,” I said, hoisting Kalli up higher
34. The laborers began hoisting the train wheels onto the bed of the wagon using an A-frame equipped with block and tackle, as the heavy discs could not be lifted in any other manner
35. She continued to talk to the teller whist hoisting them back up from her knees, and trying to bat her son away with her free hand
36. Hoisting herself up once more she managed to get a few brief steps on the ice before falling again
37. Then came the task of hoisting the
38. Hoisting a big bag out of her coat she held it aloft to the tune of, ‘Please can I have some Yevy?’ from the little eager faces that starred up at her
39. “So can I,” she said, hoisting the saddle onto the mare
40. disturbed by the presence of someone hoisting themselves aboard the pontoon
41. She looked over to Gary, but he was already moving, cranking on the lever and hoisting the cage in the air
42. The garret, built to be a depository for firewood and the like, was dim and dark: for, the window of dormer shape, was in truth a door in the roof, with a little crane over it for the hoisting up of stores from the street: unglazed, and closing up the middle in two pieces, like any other door of French construction
43. The hour was come, when Saint Antoine was to execute his horrible idea of hoisting up men for lamps to show what he could be and do
44. He, previously instructed in what he was to do, laid hold of Sancho, hoisting him up in his arms, and the whole crew, who were standing ready, beginning on the right, proceeded to pass him on, whirling him along from hand to hand and from bench to bench with such rapidity that it took the sight out of poor Sancho's eyes, and he made quite sure that the devils themselves were flying away with him; nor did they leave off with him until they had sent him back along the left side and deposited him on the poop; and the poor fellow was left bruised and breathless and all in a sweat, and unable to comprehend what it was that had happened to him
45. in the confusion that ensued on board our vessel in hoisting the sails and taking
46. Hoisting the sails,
47. The roar of engines interspersed with rolling, cranking sounds like chains hoisting machinery in an old, grimy factory
48. "It isn't an issue," I said, "of fishing for them with a swivel hook, hoisting them onto the deck of a ship, chopping off the tail with a sweep of the ax, opening the belly, ripping out the heart, and tossing it into the sea
49. However, while his friends were hoisting and pushing him up, the meeting beguiled the time by singing:
50. “I was in Korea,” he said, hoisting it onto the truck’s metal bed with considerable effort
1. She starts to strum it as Robert hoists himself inside, and the truck starts forward, carrying the banjo sounds and her warbling voice away from us
2. He hoists himself up onto his crutch and hobbles toward the outer edge of the village
3. Then still holding Archan’s hand and with his other hand is his midsection, The Host hoists Archan over his head and effortlessly tosses him 20 feet into the outer wall
4. He hoists the stone knight above his head in a wrestling style press
5. Aaron catches me, hoists me into his arms and, to my surprise,
6. locks his hands on my waist and hoists me into the air
7. Making things worse for the Japanese was the fact that the YAMATO’s crew had been conducting some needed maintenance and had opened the anti-flash doors of the ammunition hoists to lubricate and paint them
8. He easily hoists her up onto Max's back, where she settles herself while he climbs up behind her
9. George supervised his men, using several languages, to use mechanical hoists to raise the heavy canvas
10. As the twin secondary hoists rose they carried along their burden with them, which for all the world looked like a nondescript section of pipe
11. Like all hoists, it had a rope that ran through a series of pulleys
12. floating cranes and hoists needed to move the heavy stones into position in midstream
13. He shaded his eyes with one hand, looking up at the midshipman perched in the maintop, paging quickly through the signal book while his signalman assistant peered through a telescope at the eighteen-gun schooner five miles southeast of Thunderer, reading off the signal hoists
14. "I saw Farebrother yesterday—he's Whiggish himself, hoists Brougham and Useful Knowledge; that's the worst I know of him;—and he says that Brooke is getting up a pretty strong party
15. After ten more seconds he jumps out of hiding and hoists his M136 to his shoulder
16. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys