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Alumna Charity Mumbi, who would otherwise have joined her 42 brothers and sisters as a hewer of wood, is now a Kenyan information officer.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was a coal hewer then, and we were terribly in love..

From Time Magazine Archive

He went to Manhattan in 1911, started work under Paul Manship, also a hewer of the heroic.

From Time Magazine Archive

No hewer of wood or drawer of water ever earned his daily wages by a more conscientious putting forth of daily labor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various

He'll be our hewer of wood and drawer of water, to say nothing of washing the dishes.

From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Tolman, Albert Walter