Quotes About Hoisted

Enoch Emery had borrowed his landlady's umbrella and he discovered as he stood in the entrance of the drugstore, trying to open it, that it was at least as old as she was. When he finally got it hoisted, he pushed his dark glasses back on his eyes and re-entered the downpour.

The servants listened in fascination as Cornelia's conversation grew more and more ribald, less and less shocked at itself. Eventually, roaring drunk as any good madam of the Bhorga, Cornelia had been hoisted up by six male servants and borne, singing her own requiem, to her chamber.

Yes, I had disabled a six foot five satyr, caught him, and hoisted him into a chair without dropping my beer. If you think that's unlikely, you don't know how I feel about beer.)