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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The Emperor himself, always a mystical fatalist rather than the hewer of his own fortune, felt the growing inertia of his final malady.

From A History of the Third French Republic by Wright, C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad)