| 单词 | hew out |
| 例句 | With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were hewing out of the mountain of white supremacy the stone of their individuality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope,” he proclaimed. Memorial Review: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Opens in Washington 2011-08-25T12:00:00Z “With this faith,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. taught us in 1963, “we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.” Opinion | The mass nonviolent uprising reflects the life of our democracy, not its death 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z As he and Clarke began work on their film, they hewed out the larger beats of first contact. These two books examine some of sci-fi’s most influential projects 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z ‘With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. ’ An Emotion We All Need More of 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z It closely resembles previous Republican budgets that weren’t serious tax-and-spending proposals either, but broad political manifestoes hewed out of the tattered old doctrine of supply-side economics. Obama’s Well-Earned Victory Lap on the Economy 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z And the Lord told Mo-ses to hew out two blocks of stone like to the first, and bring them up with him to the top of Mount Si-na-i. Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood 2012-04-13T02:00:19.530Z Again he paints in sweeping flourishes, beating a kind of rapturous rhythm with his brush, gesturing with it between strokes, like an orchestral conductor hewing out the rhythms of a symphony.... Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z "And Joseph, buying fine linen and taking Him down, wrapped Him in the fine linen, and laid Him in a sepulchre which was hewed out of a rock." Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady 2012-02-25T03:00:09.890Z He had preceded them over a year, and had in the meantime hewed out a few timbers to be used in the construction of their cabin. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z You are hewing out for yourselves cisterns, broken cisterns, which can hold no water. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z At length he began to hew out steps in the snow along the face of the peak towards us. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z A comparatively level space hewed out of the mountain-side was fixed on as a court. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z The design gave form to a line from Dr. King’s “Dream” speech — “With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.” Memorial of Martin Luther King Jr. Dedicated in Washington 2011-10-16T13:30:28Z William of Champlitte had contrived to hew out for himself a principality in the western parts of the Peloponnesus, and had organized there a small state with twelve baronies and 136 knights fees. The Byzantine Empire 2011-10-16T02:00:16.630Z Still it is amazing how faint a trace Lincoln left on the history of Illinois, hewing out no legislative enactment endearing his memory to the people of the State. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z It is a fine thing when a young man, born to travel the speedway of luxury, voluntarily leaves it to hew out a pathway for himself through life. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z Why should we leave the fountain of living waters to hew out for ourselves, with infinite pains, broken cisterns that can hold no water? The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z But I must hew out for myself a career in the world some day, Sacharissa. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z An ox-wagon driver hews out an ant-hill forming an oven, in which he cooks his bread, the clay burning like a slow fire, and with an intense heat. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z Bevis held the matchlock this time and watched while Mark hewed out the stakes, taking the labour and the watching in turn. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Pins of hard, dry birch, driven into the logs and tied together at the tops, formed rowlocks, and the craft was provided with four large paddles, or oars, hewed out with an ax. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z "And looking yonder," continued Harley's soliloquy, "I should remember that form when I wished to hew out from the granite the idea of Endurance." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one life-time. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Then dey would hew out troughs and soak de hides in lime water till all the hair come off. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z It was the custom to hew out chambers in the rocks on the sides of the hilly ridge, in which to place the bodies of the common dead. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z There were plenty of trees near the river, so the settlers hewed out logs for ridge poles, then placed willow poles and brush across for a support. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Under that tree down there the Father who founded this convent built with his own hands the cabin that was the first church, and hewed out of logs the first altar. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame While Tom, the assistant, stabled the team, Mr. Eure and Billy got snow shovels from the barn, and hewed out a way to the deep drifted door at the near end of the building. A Man in the Open As Moses had broken the former tablets, the task was imposed on him of hewing out the slabs on which God renewed His awful sanction of the Decalogue, the fundamental statutes of the nation. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone. The Bible Story Nay, more, let us hew out the pure, white, friendly rock we know of, and make surer the unworn, unfamiliar, unexperienced soles of our brethren with it, that they may travel on, erect and fearless. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 It is said to be a long narrow excavation like a grave or the interior of a sarcophagus hewed out of the rock just beneath the level of the ground. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant They made back-breaking portages over places where they had to hew out a trail for a quarter of a mile. Northern Diamonds The ambitious carpenter first hews out a distorted caricature of a man, which he passes over to the painters to be embellished. The History and Records of the Elephant Club There were also men working in the stone quarries hewing out the great stones for the foundation, and skillful workmen making the golden ornaments and the beautiful carving. The Bible Story The keel has been hewed out of the Saginaw's late topmast and is blocked up on the beach. The Last Cruise of the Saginaw Why say, all she'd done was to hew out something that looks like a lot of soap boxes piled up for a bonfire. Side-stepping with Shorty Subsequently the river again hewed out its channel, sometimes in the lava, sometimes between this rock and the chalky limestone. Volcanoes: Past and Present Everything was strong and comfortable,—heavy mahogany, 4 guiltless of the modern device of veneering, and hewed out with a square solidity which had not an idea of change. Household Papers and Stories Which is the part of a man, after all; to fall for Ireland or to hew out new lands and found a new house in the west? Nuala O'Malley If you pay too much attention to them you will never hew out anything worth while. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types You have, He says, hewed out to yourselves broken cisterns that hold no water. The Way to God and How to Find It The little girl sat near the foot of the colossus which stood so quietly that if he did not move the trunk and ears, one would think that he was hewed out of stone. In Desert and Wilderness I've had an idea of working the Thorwaldsen trick: find some fine site out there, some wall of rock close to the railway, and hew out a monster grizzly or mountain lion. Money Magic A Novel He was put down in a little plot of cleared ground hemmed in by mighty forests, and made to hew out a home in a vast world of enemies. Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association They live on the little farms that their fathers literally hewed out of a resisting wilderness. The Shepherd of the North The work of hewing out in the solid rock a habitation such as this must have cost more than most Rhaetian chamois hunters would save in many a year. The Princess Virginia Nasmyth let her go, but he did not know that she signed to Mattawa, who was then busy hewing out a big redwood log. The Greater Power And, in a few moments, she was bending absorbedly over the stuff, lost in the intricacies of hewing out an embryonic garment for her personal adornment. The Twins of Suffering Creek Boats on the rivers: small freight boats of a primitive type and long canoes hewed out of single logs. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions "I do not love you," he said mildly, and hewed out. The Valor of Cappen Varra What of the patient craftsmen who hewed out the block of marble, whose eyes were inflamed, whose lungs were scarred by the white dust of it? Olive in Italy When I pass the chapel at Ryecroft I look with some amount of pride on the two stoops, enclosing the door, which I hewed out. Adventures and Recollections But soon the body asked him to hew out a second cave in addition to the one nature had provided. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character It was a long craft, hewed out of a single log, which looked at first crankier than it really was. The Young Alaskans on the Trail Winding past the convicts' point in single file, came a long line of some thirty canoes, uncouth, shapeless things, each hewed out of a great cypress log. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades Here am I twenty-five, and all alone In the wide world; yet having won the right, By my own effort, to hew out my lot, And create ties to cheer this arid waste. The Woman Who Dared You must hew out, if your means are so restricted, the form by sheer labor; and that both cunning and dextrous. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving On October 5, 1818, Mrs. Lincoln died and was laid to rest at the foot of a tree on the farm which her husband had hewed out of the forest with his axe. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Yet the woodpeckers had in some way contrived to hew out their arboreal nursery, which was almost, if not quite, finished. Our Bird Comrades Would such men have spent their time in hewing out beams of oak ten or twelve inches square by main strength and patience if they had possessed the circular saw driven by steam-power? Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 One of them had hewed out a little cave in the rock. Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light You hew out of your polished verses a stately image of smiling victory; I tell you 'tis an uncouth, distorted, savage idol, hideous, bloody, and barbarous. Studies in Literature and History From the logs on the shore he ordered his men to build a raft, and with their hatchets they hewed out oars. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. The scared Israelites fled to the mountains, there taking refuge in the holes or caves that were ready for them, or hewing out, in the hard rock, rough chambers in which to hide. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Then, at a pinch, they could hide themselves a little way inland and hew out a pirogue of their own from a dry log. Blackbeard: Buccaneer So partial was he to the art and occupation of grave-making, that he was observed at times to hew out a habitation for the dead ere a tenant was provided. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Some of the houses was pole houses, some hewed out. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 When they forsake the one fountain of living water, they must dig up, and hew out to themselves many broken cisterns, that can hold no water, no one to help another. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning We forsake the fountain of living water, and hew out to ourselves clumsy cisterns. Mushrooms on the Moor We went out with arms in our hands, and hewed out spaces in savagery for homes. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink,”—not stay away, hewing out for himself broken cisterns which can hold no water. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Suppose a passage first cut; then they hew out chambers on either side, each about twelve feet wide. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading “There being no boards to be had, we had perforce to go in the woods and fell and hew out our lumber to make a rocker,” causing much loss of time. Handbook to the new Gold-fields But I’ll no’ set myself to the hewing out of broken cisterns this while again. Janet's Love and Service Instead of raising huge structures above ground, they began to hew out caverns in the rocks in which to lay their dead. Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt Either as squatter or bona fide purchaser he had with the aid of his neighbors hewed out a clearing, or single-handed girdled the trees, and laid the sills of his log cabin. Union and Democracy Father went to work, and from the trunk of a tree, he hewed out a rough pulpit! Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History By his own hand alone would his future be fashioned; would he hew out any shape save the idol that pleased him? Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Assisted by the armourer, a forge was put up for the ironwork, and he set the natives to cut down trees and hew out timbers and planks. Charley Laurel A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land There was nothing to bring them here; and as they toiled at piece-work, they would not lift a pick except to hew out coal. Son Philip And so we stood back to back, hewing out a circle of protection against our enemies. Out Around Rigel Our floor was of maple split with wedges and hewed out with a broadax. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History He could hew out a career that would honor her. The Seventh Noon Here they settled, to hew out for themselves a second home in the wilderness. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom At this time the town was little more than a clearing hewed out from the virgin forest. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers At last I hewed out a wheel of wood and made a wheelbarrow. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric Christianity was the iconoclast which broke in pieces the images of decrepit polytheism, and hewed out a way where progress might march to fulfill her splendid destiny. A Hero and Some Other Folks The idea seemed a good one and they fell to, hewing out a ditch with a couple of sticks. Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer But they could see that the cave ran on before them, as if it were a subterranean, vaulted gallery, hewed out of the stone by hands of many Titans! The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky Them troughs was hewed out of a log and was washed and hung in the sun till next mealtime. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 A steep flight of stairs, "hewed out of the rock," allowed the soldiers to pass from the water to the summit of the castle. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. Hard as the metal I once dreamed of hewing out of the rocks. John Gabriel Borkman He, Rivière, had chosen his new life with eyes open, and, right or wrong, he would stick by his choice and hew out his life on his own lines. Swirling Waters Among them I used to minish myself to the size of an ant and become a pioneer hewing out a pathway through virgin thickets. Lore of Proserpine This same army, in a former incarnation, went forth over the land where they lived to slay and exterminate; in this embodiment, here in America, they hew out the rocks, and toil in the mines. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul "Wherever souls are being tried and ripened in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple." Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada If Joseph wished, therefore, to rise among his fellows, he must hew out his own path to greatness. The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant P: Though ye hew out dwellings in the mountain, being skilful? Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Sometimes in a single year Nairne would put as many as twenty brawny young fellows on his land to hew out homes for themselves. A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 The later composers sometimes followed the same procedure—which is equivalent to a sculptor "taking" a block of marble and hewing out a statue; but more and more they trusted to their own imaginations. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The new language was hewing out new paths. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway But Oh, I forsook the fountain of living waters, and hewed out broken cisterns, that could hold no water. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. P: He said: Worship ye that which ye yourselves do carve S: Said he: What! do you worship what you hew out? Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Everything was strong and comfortable,—heavy mahogany, guiltless of the modern device of veneering, and hewed out with a square solidity which had not an idea of change. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 We shall not be obliged to hew out our material with broadaxes, nor blast it out with dynamite. Among the Forces Paul came away quietly and hewed out history for two thousand years. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy Too soon did we all turn aside like a deceitful bow, forsook the fountain of living waters, and hewed out broken cisterns that could hold no water. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. There can therefore be no doubt that the hewing out of rock was practised by the megalithic people, and that they were no mean exponents of the art. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders Others might hew out the trail thus blazed; the reporter, bearing his searchlight, should pass on to other dark spots. Success A Novel Did he not come to these woods to hew out from the heart of them a home for those he loved? The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Like Thoreau, Beethoven came on the world's stage "just in the nick of time," and almost immediately had to begin hewing out a path for himself. Beethoven The water in our canvas buckets froze into solid cakes of ice, which we hewed out with pickaxes and kicked about like footballs. Tell England A Study in a Generation Ragged firs rose, dripping, against the rosy glow in the eastern sky, with the narrow gap, hewed out for the line, running through their midst. Ranching for Sylvia Within, there were seats with kneeling-planks, hewed out of hard wood and still bearing the marks of the adze. White Shadows in the South Seas They had beaten against our lines as one beats on a wall--hewing out stones, indeed, but without stirring it. King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet He was forced to hew out a new path for himself. Beethoven He hewed out the foundations for it with indomitable spirit. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him There is no necessity for us to fall; we can hew out our destiny for ourselves, if only we have the wit and the courage and the honesty. African and European Addresses Then he would hew out de two halves what he done split open like dey used to make a dug-out boat. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 I think I should like to be commissioned to build a castle with towers and gates of this very granite which you could hew out by the thousand cord from the quarry yonder. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 None the less we should set his seashore images upon a lower plane of art than the monuments Praxiteles himself hewed out of marble. The Theory of the Theatre The stonecutter takes the marble and hews out the rough block; the sculptor finds its hidden soul. The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training When Murlock built his cabin and began laying sturdily about with his ax to hew out a farm—the rifle, meanwhile, his means of support—he was young, strong and full of hope. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Over it came many who afterwards became pioneers in hewing out this new land from the raw material of which lasting commonwealths are made. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter He was hurled by thousands on that immense work, and it was the tawny hand of China that hewed out hundreds of miles for the transcontinental pathway. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 In the first he hewed out materials for his house; in the second he put them together. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 The wood comes in rudely shaped blocks, as lasts are sent to the factory, seeming to have been coarsely hewed out of the log. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 When a neighbor died they hewed out puncheons to make a coffin, and finding only eighteen nails in the neighborhood, grandfather, by torchlight, pulled fourteen more out of his house to finish the coffin. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler Chunks of almost pure native silver, weighing scores of pounds, were hewed out of the chambers where they were found, and men went wild with excitement. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter The habits of years are broken up; sad to say, the middle-aged will suffer unrelieved, but the young can be incited to grapple with the situation and hew out for themselves a way through. The Cost of Shelter You haven't pluck to take your fate into your own hands and hew out a way for yourself. The Top of the World By far the largest number of the new-comers were of the true, hardy backwoods stock, fitted to grapple with the wilderness and to hew out of it a prosperous commonwealth. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 The settler ousts no one from the land; if he did not chop down the trees, hew out the logs for a building, and clear the ground for tillage, no one else would do so. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 The carpenters were required not only to build houses, barns, sheds and other structures, but also boats, and had to hew out or whipsaw many of the timbers and boards used. George Washington: Farmer The dugouts of the early settlers and Indians were hewed out of poplar logs. The School Book of Forestry My mother and father lived in a two-room house hewed out of big logs—great big logs. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 And hew out a huge mountain of pathos, As Philip's son proposed to do with Athos. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The usual fashion is to place the body doubled up on its side in a box of plank hewed out of spruce logs and about four feet long. A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians Let the sculptor group about its base Rurik and his followers, who in rude might hewed out strongholds for the coming nation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Rennie made harbours, built bridges, and hewed out docks for shipping, the increase in which had kept pace with the growth of our home and foreign trade. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain Next, they became entangled in a cane-brake, where La Salle, as usual with him in such cases, took the lead, a hatchet in each hand, and hewed out a path for his followers. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Mr. Stewart was at the work which had occupied him for some weeks previously--hewing out logs on the side hill. In the Valley On landing, I saw several Indians hewing out the box in which the dead are placed. A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians He set to work to hew out a hut in an iceberg, aided by Johnson, and really they looked like men digging their own tomb. The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Some he hews out at the base and flings behind him on the field. The Naturalist on the Thames Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways;—there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Daily Strength for Daily Needs Neither did this seem engraved, but rather hewed out and embossed in relief, or at least like grotesque, which, by the artist's skill, has the appearance of the roundness of the object it represents. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 The preliminary work of hewing out from the rough was done by means of chisels. Early European History Soon after Bede's death they fell upon Northumbria, hewed out with their swords a place of settlement, and were soon lords of the whole north country. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Then there is the indolent need for what is easy which makes us take a trodden path rather than hew out a new one for ourselves. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War All their energies were needed in hewing out their future homes. The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton The drilling was done with wooden guns, each man hewing out a stick to the size and shape of a modern rifle. Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 What! would the emperor be content for ever to hew out the frozen water with an axe before he could assuage his thirst? The Caesars The doctor was assisted by an Englishman, who at the same time began to hew out a pair of crutches. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth The miner at his work, the axeman where He hews out fortune with enduring toil; The farmer with his plenty and to spare, For laughing harvests crown our fruitful son. Verses and Rhymes By the Way Finally, with a bold disregard of the logician's classificatory rules, these Utopian statesmen who devised the World State, hewed out in theory a class of the Base. A Modern Utopia It is all an inspiration; while hewing out chunks of ice and shovelling them away is the acute pleasure of movement, exercise. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out broken cisterns, that can hold no water.' Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 The timbers for it were hewed out by hand; the boards and planking were whipsawed. The Valley of the Giants 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. Emile They both hewed out their own fortunes and recorded them on the pages of history, the one with his pen, the other with his graver. Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar The walls and roof were of bare stone,—as though the whole had been hewed out of the solid rock. The Beetle Such dunderheads would see no artistic difference between Phidias and the man of to-day who hews out and sets up a common marble mantel- piece! Ardath Indeed, so ingenious had been the workmen who hewed out this room that they carved a rounded stone pillow at one end of the shelf. A Rock in the Baltic Then the Deputy came to me and asked me if I was willing to learn to hew out scythe snaths in the rough for the shavers, who finished them? Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story He must have known heroes and talked with gods to be able to hew out of the rocks such perfection of shape and attitude as his 'David.' A Romance of Two Worlds The lands, practically free, in this vast area not only attracted the settler, but furnished opportunity for all men to hew out their own careers. Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 No man had a happier knack in hewing out these notches in the cliff, and no one knew better where to place them, than this pilgrim's pioneer. Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] Here are tremendous flat-shaped boulders left here ages ago, when those vast geological forces were at work hewing out this gorge. See America First Every man was expected to hew out fifty snaths in a day. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story There was nothing for it but to fell another hemlock and hew out another beam, which meant a day lost. The Blazed Trail Having in this way settled down either as a squatter or as a land- owner, the pioneer proceeded to hew out a clearing in the midst of the forest. Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 Lords of the Council, it was his money, thus generously advanced, which procured for us the arms with which we hewed out our freedom. The Lady of the Shroud But it is equally true that by prodigious effort Kentuckian and Vermonter alike hewed out their own ways to greatness. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond I hewed out two tables of stone, upon which God at my request wrote the Torah. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 In this alcove hewed out of the dark trees, the atmosphere seemed to Denis agreeably elegiac. Crome Yellow Taking an axe, Ayrault hewed out a parallelogram about three feet by four and set it on end against the bank. A journey in other worlds A romance of the future Dame," said the boy, who was busily employed in hewing out a sword of wood, "I would you had seen the show today. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes If I did not pray as they did, I lived a life in the desert like theirs, hewing out my ideas as they were wont to hew their rocks. The Magic Skin |
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