The Story of the Rock. Robert Michael Ballantyne

and two of the men were up there working the windlass, by which the heavy blocks of moor-stone were raised to their places.

      The signal had been given to hoist one of these, when Isaac Dorkin, who stood beside the stone, suddenly uttered a loud cry, and shouted, “hold on! Ease off up there! Hold o-o-on! D’ye hear?”