Example Sentences

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To Desnoyers, they seemed like sunken basins for the use of the invisible Titans who had been hewing the forest.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

Samuel, who had been hewing at the end of a long gallery far away from the foot of the shaft, only heard of the accident to his boy on his way home.

From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Now, back in the rooms where Jim and I had been hewing, there wasn't any gas to speak of.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis