90 collocations for hewn

True, there are intellects that will work themselves into position, men who will hew their way upward in spite of the difficulties which beset them, as there are others who will plunge down to degradation and dishonor, in defiance of tender rearing, of education, of association, and all the allurements to an upward career that can be presented to the human understanding.

Says Jerome, "Take axe in hand and hew down the sterile tree of marriage.

'Tis Cnut that, single-handed, hewed him a path through Ivo's battle and bare away his own banner, the which doth grace my hall at Thrasfordham e'en now.

They had now two occupations: namely, to hew timber for loading the ship, and collect grapes; with these last they filled the ship's longboat.

"I have also lived the life of the lowly; I have drawn water, and I have hewn wood.

Time is the rock from which they are to hew out their fortunes; and health, enterprise, and integrity, the instruments with which to do it.

~There is a Proper Way for Doing Everything~ In hewing an axe-shaft, how must you act?

" =408.= All sights were mellowed, and all sounds subdued, The hills seemed farther, and the streams sang low; As in a dream, the distant woodman hewed His winter log, with many a muffled blow.

The mason and carpenter must know how to hew the stone and square the timber, and follow out faithfully the working plan placed in their hands.

Let thy might Tramp on eternal snows its way, And through the ebon walls of night Hew down a passage unto day.

These roads have all been made by hewing the rock away with pickaxes, or bursting it with gunpowder.

The horses of the crusaders, who rode up to the porch of the Temple, wereso the story goesup to the knees in the loathsome stream; and the forms of Christian knights hacking and hewing the bodies of the living and the dead furnished a pleasant commentary on the sermon of Urban at Clermont.

Samuel was as innocent in hewing "Agag in pieces," as is the tree that falls upon the traveler.

Blows might have followed: the uncle, in his anger, hewing the nephew limb from limb with the carving knife from the table, and subsequently carrying away the remains to the Pond and there casting them in.

All their energies were needed in hewing out their future homes.

We hewed our steps as we moved upward, but were soon glad to deviate from the ice to a position scarcely less awkward.

In his diary for February, 1760, he records that four of his carpenters had only hewed about one hundred twenty feet of timber in a day, so he tried the experiment of sitting down and watching them.

To name the Test would put you in a rage; You charge not that on any former age, But smile to think how innocent you stand, 700 Arm'd by a weapon put into your hand, Yet still remember that you wield a sword Forged by your foes against your sovereign lord; Design'd to hew the imperial cedar down, Defraud succession, and dis-heir the crown.

Down he hewed the boughs of cedar, Shaped them straightway to a framework, Like two bows he formed and shaped them, Like two bended bows together.

"My people, saith Jehovah, have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves underground cisterns, full of rents, that can hold no water....

At length reaching the dog, he smote off his head with his sword, then hewed off his legs, and all his body, until the whole place was covered with blood.

My business has, therefore, been the rough business of a pioneer; and while hewing a road through the trackless forest, along which all might hereafter travel with ease, I had no time to attend to those minute graces of composition and petty perfection of arrangement and collocation, which are the attribute of the academic grove, or the literary parterre.

" Perdosa, who had hewed the fuel, at once became angry.

The men are hewing down the giant grass with cutlasses; the women stripping off the leaves, and then piling the cane in carts drawn by mules, the leaders of which draw by rope traces two or three times as long as themselves.

It was not possible to hew a grave in rock, therefore earth and stone were piled up round the bodies, so that in at least two spots you find several graves serving as buttresses to rude dwellings.

90 collocations for  hewn