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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

"And the hewer of thy wood and the drawer of thy water," repeated the two poorly dressed men as they raised their shining eyes to heaven.

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by Soissons, C. S. de

The roof of them is propped up as the hewer works on, till all the coal likely to fall is hewn away.

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