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Nynauld %note%1 relates that in a village of Switzerland, near Lucerne, a peasant was attacked by a wolf, whilst he was hewing timber; he defended himself, and smote off a fore-leg of the beast.

From The Book of Were-Wolves by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The naughty little fellow hardly thought when he was making a hole for his beans that he was hewing out a cell in which his own knowledge would soon imprison him.

From Emile by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

When Thad said this, he of course could have no idea how near he was hewing to the truth.

From The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight by Ferguson, Donald

Meantime, the helper, whose name was Henry Jones, was hewing an oaken cross-beam which supported the ceiling, and which I could not pass under without violently knocking my head.

From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Fogarty, Thomas

The new language was hewing out new paths.

From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Ruud, Martin Brown