| 单词 | hewer |
| 例句 | Black schools were required to adopt a curriculum that trained students to be no more than servants, “hewers of wood and drawers of water,” as one National Party official had it. What Ernest Cole’s Hidden Camera Revealed 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The working people must no longer be hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z Mother," said he, "would that they had been hewers of wood and drawers of water. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z The spotless linen was a delight to the boarders, but to Jimmy, deposed to the rank of hewer of wood and drawer of water, it was the badge of the usurper. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z "There have always been hewers of wood, and drawers of water," I heard some elderly person say at me, in a voice of finality. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z Slaves of the soil, hewers of wood and drawers of water, they were doomed to be; their leaders saw it now, and roundly told them so, and they retorted on their leaders. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z They have crushed them, persecuted them, made them hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z If not precisely a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, he was next door to that humble estate, being a digger of wells and cellars. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Be ye now accursed, and may ye never cease to be servants, and drawers of water, and hewers of wood for the house of my God. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z A certain number of their own colony are ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’ for the rest. Bert Wilson at the Wheel 2012-01-14T03:00:19.827Z In the inland districts the girl's head was shorn, and she entered forthwith upon her labour as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, ugly enough by this disfigurement to discourage any admirer. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z No hewer of wood or drawer of water ever earned his daily wages by a more conscientious putting forth of daily labor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z Then the Benedictines will be for the Jesuits what the Gibeonites were for the Israelites, their “hewers of wood and drawers of water.” Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z One becomes a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, and the other an emperor, or a commander-in-chief of an army. Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z There was no need of hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z In the meanwhile half the street is occupied by the hewers, and chips fly right and left, endangering the eyes and faces of passers-by. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z As before stated there was an ample spring of delicious cool water in this apartment, and the original hewers of the caves, no doubt, selected the place on this account. Lost in the Ca?on 2011-09-19T02:00:14.387Z Under his paternal care the Danish Bonde was a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water; his lot was no better than that of the most miserable ryot of Bengal. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Man has made us his hewers of wood and his drawers of water; the cookers of his food and the sewer on of his buttons and the nurser of his squalling brats. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z And then came Schoolmaster Strull, a great, strong fellow, whom the Lord had made fitter to be a hewer of wood than a trainer of children. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z They would become hewers of wood and drawers of water to the tyrannical and oppressive, and would only encourage them in their deeds of wickedness. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ 2011-04-18T02:00:09.590Z The work of understanding must be enlightened by the emotions, or he will surely sink to the level of the hewers of wood and drawers of water. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z They became slaves, herds, ‘hewers of wood, and drawers of water,’ as well as tillers of the ground. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z Here are the hewers of wood, the drawers of water, and the old mode of plowing the soil and of threshing the grain. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The South has told you ten thousand times that we of the colored race are only fit for hewers of wood and drawers of water, like the Gibeonites. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z I can't throw away thousands to insure a few hewers and trammers against an accident which might have happened any day, but never has happened yet. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z He ceases to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water.... Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z They will grow up like the children around them: they will join the hopeless casuals: they will be hewers of wood. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z Nothing is degrading that is virtuous and honest; and where honesty and virtue are, there alone is true nobility, though their owner be a hewer of wood. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 To look at her now you would never guess that she was once a shrinking d�butante, a hewer of turf, and a drawer of water from the eyes of the green-keeper. "Pip" A Romance of Youth The fair tree was the Irish monarchy, the twelve hewers were the twelve Saints or Apostles of Ireland, and the one who laid it low was St. Ruadan. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race My ancestors carried their own banner to the Sepulchre of Our Lord, when yours were hewers of wood and drawers of water! The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers? The Old English Herbals "Mere hewers of wood and drawers of water," repeated the pure scientist with disdain, "let them serve truth and searchers after truth; for knowledge is power and the truth shall make us free." The Book of Gud It seems very probable that the fourscore thousand hewers employed by Solomon for cutting timber did not confine their operations simply to what would now be termed cedars and fir-trees. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" In some cases this has been successfully done; thus the Cornish miners, when the mines in Cornwall were no longer profitable, went into the collieries, where more hewers of coal were much wanted. Political economy The white men are the makers of money, and the natives must naturally be the hewers of wood and drawers of water.” Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal The former had hewers of wood and drawers of water; the latter have ewers of water and drawers of wood. The Handbook of Conundrums They went forth, as it is said, hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the people, and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place which he should choose. The Bible Story The Emperor himself, always a mystical fatalist rather than the hewer of his own fortune, felt the growing inertia of his final malady. A History of the Third French Republic While they were not the hewers of wood, women were usually the drawers of water, as in Palestine and Syria. Oriental Women But he'll never be anything but a hewer, because he doesn't want to learn. The Boy With the U.S. Miners That hewer of helms and shields is Galahad, none less. Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality And the princes said unto them, "Let them live: so they become hewers of wood and drawers of water to all the people;" as the princes had spoken unto them. The Bible Story We were truly "hewers of wood and drawers of water," and we enjoyed excellent health, although we did our own cooking. The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) The day I became hewer he laid his hands upon us, blessed us as bride and bridegroom, and a few weeks afterward I called her my wife. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. He then examined the coal face, as it had been left by the hewer who had been working on the night shift, to make sure that it had been properly spragged or timbered. The Boy With the U.S. Miners In the first place, this her influence must be acknowledged; she must be duly recognized as a teacher no less than as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse Those who "Keep in uninquiring trust The old dull round of things" shall be hewers of wood and drawers of water to the end of the days. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 The terms pike, pick, mandril and slitter are applied to the collier’s pick in different districts, the men being known as pikemen or hewers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" He is not wanted anywhere except as a cheap hewer of wood and drawer of water. The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy The hewers set to work in high spirits, hoping that every blow of the pick would drive through. The Boy With the U.S. Miners Can a tree defend itself from the hewer's axe? The Kempton-Wace Letters No pirates would now haunt her coast to desolate her villages with fire and sword, in order to supply a christian people with hewers of wood and drawers of water. Thoughts on African Colonization Some races are born to rule, other races are born to obey, to be “hewers of wood and drawers of water.” German Problems and Personalities Murty's exaggerated expectations had suffered a grievous eclipse; still, if he became an expert hewer, he might look forward to earning more than a curate's salary by his axe. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement The rest were mere diggers of the soil, treaders of grapes, or hewers of wood, who had been suddenly and violently preferred to the glorious state of soldiers. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Those hewers of the clouds, the winds,—that lair At the four compass-points,—are out to-night; I hear their sandals trample on the height, I hear their voices trumpet through the air. Weeds by the Wall Verses Among the hewers of the party I was the first affected by the malady. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Else, surely, I had remained all my days a hewer of wood and a drawer of water--with more of health in mind and body and means, perhaps, than are mine to-day! The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Looking, unmoved, unhearing, upon the bitter struggles of the weak, the ignorant, the unskilled, the gross hewers of wood and drawers of water. Carmen Ariza When their craft was detected they were sentenced to become hewers of wood and drawers of water to the Jews; in other words, their slaves. Bible Romances First Series There must be hewers of wood and drawers of water, and the dishes ought to be washed. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures And procuring "lodgings" in a small cottage of but a single apartment, near the village of Niddry Mill, I commenced my labours as a hewer under the shade of the Niddry woods. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. I thought of the world's hewers of wood and drawers of water as being the folk who had no Capital; the others as the people who had somehow acquired possession of the talisman. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The drawers of water and hewers of wood have arisen! The Strollers How is it that the Catholic population, as a rule, are merely the hewers of wood and drawers of water? Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule These he compelled to be his hewers of wood and drawers of water. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots Their forefathers doomed them to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character The hewers of wood and the drawers of water do but little of the real work of the world. Oklahoma Sunshine How would their beautiful Hyde Park be spoiled by letting loose in it such an army of shovellers, bricklayers, hewers, and all manner of craftsmen! Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly "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. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story There must be quarriers before there can be architects: the hewers of wood and drawers of water are the basis of all civilization. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 This God effected eight hundred years afterward, in the days of Joshua, when the Gibeonites were subjected to prepetual bondage, and made hewers of wood and drawers of water.—Joshua ix: 23. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject They are the hewers of wood and drawers of water of Brahmanism. India, Its Life and Thought Volunteers were quickly obtained, and descending with a dozen skilful hewers, he commenced operations at the very spot where the sound of the blows had reached his ears. The Mines and its Wonders "Your little ones, your wives, and the stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water." An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story The Negroes, kidnaped from their native land, enslaved and later liberated, are still treated as an inferior people who should be the hewers of wood and the drawers of water. The American Empire The genie of the cart, the hewer of wood and drawer of water, is a tall, wiry, bronze-colored Hindu. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines Fortunately the men working in the pit at the time were all supplied with safety-lamps—the hewers with Stephenson’s, and the hurriers with Davy’s. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Sometimes when a hewer detaches a block of ore with his pick mass of quicksilver, the size of a pigeon’s egg, rolls out, and leaping along the floor, divides into thousands of small drops. The Mines and its Wonders Born and educated to administer, if not to rule, here was he fetching and carrying, a hewer of ham and a drawer of corks. Anthony Lyveden This subjugation was the origin of caste; the weaker became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the stronger. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions We put in to wood at one of these places, and for the first time I saw these hewers of wood and drawers of water. From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington Man has got accustomed to serve as her hewer of wood and drawer of water, and to expect nothing from her but poetry and refinement. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Often, notwithstanding this, the heat below is very great, and the hewer working away with his heavy pick is bathed in perspiration. The Mines and its Wonders He'll be our hewer of wood and drawer of water, to say nothing of washing the dishes. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good They were uncomely hewers of wood and drawers of water, but they turned their heads to look at her, and their eyes followed her as she went to her seat. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim The conquered people, in Swift's bitter words of contempt, became "hewers of wood and drawers of water" to their conquerors. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 To become again a "hewer of wood and drawer of water" for his family was a prospect not wholly to his liking. The Flag It was the curse of Canaan that made him for all time 'a hewer of wood and drawer of water.' Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization But what am I, regarded as a citizen?—a hewer of wood, and drawer of water; a mere drudge. Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II Two fellahin, mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, would have gone through a set formula of graceful words before they separated. There was a King in Egypt Therefore in the school I was a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water to my father. The Dew of Their Youth The men who do the chief work in the mine, that is, cut out the coal from the bed or seam, are the “hewers.” Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading They have long ceased to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, and yet they accomplish less than before the era of modern improvements. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy They must be now hewers of wood, and drawers of water, and the fingers whereon diamonds used to sparkle, must clench the axe and the hoe. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War And Joshua said, "We will make them hewers of wood and drawers of water," and they were saved from death but they served in bondage. And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses Already they feared that the "money power" as Jackson called it, was planning to make hewers of wood and drawers of water of the common people. The Frontier in American History The roof of them is propped up as the hewer works on, till all the coal likely to fall is hewn away. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading In a word, the people found that without a pretext of justice, they were forced to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for a chosen few. Mary Wollstonecraft The fine works of Yorktown are monuments to negro labor, for they were the hewers and the diggers. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War The man who feels himself to be best fitted to be a hewer of wood or a drawer of water will choose that rather than some loftier task. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles She was a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water." Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time The hewer’s work is very hard; sometimes he kneels, sometimes sits, and sometimes has to lie on his back or side, knocking away with his heavy pick. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading The English gentleman who in England had fallen to be a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water would never have "kept his dress clothes." Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile He was not only a hewer of wood, but often a bearer of wood as well as of water. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories With some thirty-odd dollars standing between me and starvation, it was obvious I must become a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, and to this end I haunted the employment offices. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance But in his lowly station as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, the Negro proved himself industrious, trustworthy, efficient, and cheerful. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Then he should have to fill corves with coal, and push them along the tramways for some years more till he got to be a hewer like his father. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading Neither must it be imagined that these women were condemned to be the laborious drudges who are fitly described as “hewers of wood and drawers of water.” The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers When the Gibeonites deceived Joshua and secured a pledge, the pledge of their lives was kept, but they were made slaves, doomed to drudgery forever, "hewers of wood and drawers of water." Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View The only possibility was that, in some peculiar way the echo of a hewer’s pick ran along the silent galleries, to be reverberated from this distant wall. Son Philip We must have hewers of wood and drawers of water, my dear boy, and keep a strict watch over these modern children of Gibeon. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East Bill Hagger, who had completely recovered from his accident, and was now a hewer, was among his companions. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading She had become a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. Madge Morton's Secret They are the world’s “hewers of wood and drawers of water.” The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale What a fall was there! the gospel of hope and joy was brought to the children of Gibeon, the hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Master-Knot of Human Fate "Would you advise me, then, to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, in preference?" Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author I shall soon be big enough to work as a hewer, and you shan’t want while I can earn good wages, and God will look after us all. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading "Would it mean naught to thee if in thine own province thy hewers of stone and builders of ships, thy tent-makers and herdsmen and corn growers should secretly unite and rise against thee?" The Coming of the King Scorers and teamsters and road-cutters are used to getting wages in proportion to hewers. Old Man Savarin and Other Stories In addition to these officials, a hula company naturally required the services of a miscellaneous retinue of stewards, cooks, fishermen, hewers of wood, and drawers of water. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula There must, I believe, always be hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Beach of Dreams Though not as strong as many of the other hewers, he made as much as any one else by keeping at his work. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading When opportunity offered to enter a new path he readily seized it, and from the hewer of wood he became the modest contractor, and ultimately the greater builder of bridges, docks and railways. The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway But look, now: if I was to pay you thirty, I should have to pay all the other hewers thirty; and that's not all. Old Man Savarin and Other Stories The Catholics, during that dark period, became hewers of wood and drawers of water. Home Rule Second Edition Both men and women are tailors, shoemakers, flour makers, cane crushers and sirup boilers, wood hewers and bearers, and water carriers. The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 He was my hewer of wood and drawer of water. Foe-Farrell The others, tall, strong men, gladly served him as hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Red Book of Heroes For two hundred and fifty years the American Negro has been a drawer of water and a hewer of wood. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro These, our hewers of wood and drawers of water, possess the power of doing us mischief, and are prompted to it by motives which self-love dictates, which reason justifies. An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries. He is a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, tills the fields, and performs most of the drudgery of the country. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Our friends, the reviewers, those chippers and hewers, Are judges of mortar and stone, Sir, But of meet or unmeet in a fabric complete, I’ll boldly pronounce they are none, Sir. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham He used to stalk around as if he owned the earth, but now he is a common "hewer of wood and drawer of water" like ourselves. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine He is not always going to be a mere hewer of wood and a drawer of water; he is not always going to be crude, ignorant. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Of course there is no room for Gentiles in the Mormon Heaven, excepting as hewers of wood and drawers of water to some Mormon saint. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 Man meekly submits to be the hewer of wood, the drawer of water, and the beast of burden for the superior sex. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin Here the men are the hewers of wood and drawers of water; they even clear away the snow for the encampment; and, in short, perform every laborious service. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. The learned professor infers that this vast army will be "doomed to remain where they have been, and be hewers of wood and drawers of water," because they form a "distinct alien race." Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South There were some who remained to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico The potential hewer of political chips which should lie as they might fall smiled at what seemed to be merely an expression of parental favoritism. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush He knew the price of all, from the hewer of wood to the crowned king, but only he could afford a slave like that. Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ He raised two other corps, one of seventy thousand porters of burdens, the other of eighty thousand hewers of stone, who were employed in the quarries among the mountains. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 I always have believed that the black man is an inferior animal—in fact, that the dark races are meant to be drawers of water and hewers of wood. Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha Now I consider myself, and the class I represent, as beings much more valuable to the world than, let's say, your factory-hands, your mill-workers, your hewers of wood and drawers of water. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man I'm a hewer of wood—a drawer of water. Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering The number of men employed in the mines of county Durham in 1854 was 28,000; of these, 13,500 were hewers, winning several thousand tons of coal daily. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects I have been as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water to this movement. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years If it is ever so little, if it is only a hewer of wood or a drawer of water, do something in the great battle for God and truth. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration Consequently they tend to sink to the position of hewers of wood and drawers of water to the Moslems, these on their side inevitably developing the defects of an exclusive dominant caste. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) All this may be true; still, is it not a curse to be hewers of wood and drawers of water? The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) The average that each hewer will raise per day is from two to three tons in thin, and three to four tons in thick seams. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects They are my hewers of wood and drawers of water, and they never look for payment for their labor. Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition Some say he was a hewer of wood and worked for hire. Miscellanies By such means, they hoped, the brain of France would control the body, the rural population inevitably taking the position of hewers of wood and drawers of water, both in a political and material sense. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) He has made it a hewer of wood and a drawer of water and a general farm-hand, and has shown how it can be applied to the raising and ripening of fruits. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs The largest quantity raised by any hewer on an average of the colliers of England is about six tons a day of eight hours. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Then the hewers would come along and hew the log. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 And Phoebe could not have explained to even herself what it was in her that demanded the hewer of wood and drawer of water in a man—in David. Andrew the Glad From it we can draw inspiration; for it appears that not all black men everywhere throughout the ages have been "hewers of wood and drawers of water." The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 When foes are o'ercome, we preserve them from slaughter, To be hewers of wood, and drawers of water. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 As one of the Cambridge Platonists said, we must not make our intellectual faculties Gibeonites, hewers of wood and drawers of water to the will and affections. Cambridge Essays on Education The modern Jews have to turn themselves into hewers of wood and drawers of water. The New Jerusalem The Korean was fit for nothing but to act as hewer of wood and drawer of water for his overlord. Korea's Fight for Freedom When the folk in the colliery village hear that deadly thud and feel the shudder of the earth which tell of disaster, Jack the hewer rushes to the pit's mouth and joins the search-party. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Selecting the Belgian workman—the miner, the hewer of wood and drawer of water, the proletarian, in a word—for his theme, Meunier observed closely and reproduced his vision in terms of rugged beauty. Promenades of an Impressionist Of course, the earthliness may not be manifest as before; "hewers of wood and drawers of water" they become, yet they are there and live there. Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians It is said again that the ancient Jews turned their enemies into hewers of wood and drawers of water. The New Jerusalem Like other boys in pioneer families, he became in turn a hewer of wood or drawer of water, as the necessities of the household required, in reclaiming the wilderness. A Texas Matchmaker Our administrative and military talents must gradually disappear owing to sheer disuse, till at last our lot, as hewers of wood and drawers of water in our own country, is stereotyped. The Case for India About all his statues you may walk—he is not a sculptor of one attitude, but a hewer of men and women. Promenades of an Impressionist It is said: There must be hewers of wood and drawers of water, scavengers and coalheavers, day labourers and domestic servants, or the work of society will come to a standstill. Critiques and Addresses Oh, the Helots of the profession--hewers of wood engravings, and drawers of water-colors, with a sprinkling of daguerreotypists, and academy students. In the Days of My Youth Every dogma had come out clearly and definitely from the mouth of this rough, common hewer of wood and drawer of water for his religion. The Inferno What remained went to hewers of wood and drawers of water, the workers, women and men, who provided the necessaries, comforts, luxuries upon which physical survival and social status depended. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History I know how your lands have been taken, and your people made hewers of wood and drawers of water. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque The temptation to come down from her throne and become a mere hewer of wood, and drawer of water is very strong. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 The butchers attempted to stein the current; but the carpenters took sides against them, saying, "We will see which are the stronger in Paris, the hewers of wood or the fellers of oxen." A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 The countrymen of Simeon and Dushan became mere hewers of wood and drawers of water for their foreign masters. The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition No one knows how many educated and trained men and women are thus turned into hewers of wood and drawers of water, to the ruin of their own lives and the loss of the community. The Trade Union Woman By this I do not mean that he was hungry and homeless, a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage He would be a first-rate hewer, and he became one. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain An American President, when asked what was his coat-of-arms, remembering that he had been a hewer of wood in his youth, replied, “A pair of shirt sleeves.” Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Being but a hewer of wood and drawer of water, she is rheumatic. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty All this was a vicious spectacle as any poor idea of amusement on the part of the rougher hewers of wood and drawers of water in this land of England ever is and shall be. Our Mutual Friend "Were public benefactors to be allowed to pass away, like hewers of wood and drawers of water, without commemoration, genius and enterprise would be deprived of their most coveted distinction." Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers He was employed immediately, and set to work among the hewers, receiving the usual wages for his labour. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain The Germans have long been recognized as the hewers of wood and drawers of water of the intellectual world. The Dramatic Values in Plautus A hewer of wood in Damascus was cutting logs, and his wife sat spinning by his side. The Book of Delight and Other Papers In the first place he went to look up some of the older "hewers," men who had been for years in the employ of the Tressadys. Sir George Tressady — Volume I I'm the hewer of wood and the hauler of water, or, to speak more correctly, I'm the hauler of both. In the Midst of Alarms Sir William Chambers he found haughty and reserved, probably being too much occupied to bestow attention on the Somerset House hewer, while he found Adam to be affable and communicative. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain Only he could be very knowing who owned many scribes, or he very rich who owned many hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 And at his side, with awe revering him, There went the children of Hephaestus' seed, The hewers of the sacred way, who tame The stubborn tract that erst was wilderness. The House of Atreus Crossthwaite would ask for nothing higher, than to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water to an establishment of associate workmen. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography At one time the hardy hewer of wood and drawer of water gave his lifetime willingly that his son might ride in the "varnished cars." Remarks Ages pass, and leave the poor herd, the mass of men, eternally the same,—hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Pilgrims of the Rhine The Celt has long been 'the hewer of wood and drawer of water for the Saxon,' and so he must continue. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished The daughter is a mere slave; unnoticed and neglected—a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Once, after signing a good many cheques in charity matters, he said, 'They talk of hewers of wood and drawers of water; but I think I must be called a drawer of cheques.' Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Moreover, there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes But then we must have the hewers of wood and the drawers of water, and we must have the delicate human flowers. An Ambitious Man "The Celt," says the Times, "is the hewer of wood and the drawer of water to the Saxon; The great works of this country," it continues "depend on cheap labour." The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished A part of the descendants of Canaan were hewers of wood and drawers of water, and became tributary and subject to the Israelites, or the descendants of Shem. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions Most of them, misled by unwise leaders, prefer the education of the older type and think that industrial training will only fit them to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water" to the whites. Sociology and Modern Social Problems "How strange," says M. d'A., "is our destiny! that that Republic which I quitted, determined to be rather an hewer of wood and drawer of water all my life than serve, he should die for." The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 We begin to see persons and modes which remind us of scriptural expressions—the water-carrier with the goat-skin filled, "the hewers of wood and drawers of water," the latter usually working in gangs of five. Round the World No one save the hewers of wood and drawers of water were allowed even to enter the courtyard surrounding it, so there she lived and wept over her lost Lionheart. Tales of the Punjab They who merely produce raw material will ever be "hewers of wood and drawers of water" to others who prepare such things for market. School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time There was he who bore a name great from of old, Folk-wolf to wit, bearing on his shield the axe of the hewer. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale Three hundred thousand of our women are hewers of wood and drawers of water, robbed of their divine right of love and motherhood. The One Woman A hewer of stone images—a no-body!—he will not be missed! Ardath The phrase hewer of wood and drawer of water is not enough to warrant us to separate verse 27 from 22-26; the phrase occurs not only in verse 21 but also in JE verse 23. Prolegomena Being of course hated by his fellow servants, the renegade at last fell into disgrace, and exchanging the pipe-stick for the hatchet, he became a hewer of wood. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 But Wood-wise himself fought with a great sword, giving great strokes to the right hand and the left, and was no more hasty than is the hewer in the winter wood. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale If she is still but the hewer of his wood and the drawer of his water, he has, in many cases, elevated her to the position of dictatress in these humble affairs. After the Storm Pheidias was a talented fellow-citizen—a hewer in stone by profession: what could he know of the relations of Pheidias to posterity? South Wind The poor man is in his native element; the poor gentleman totally unfitted, by his previous habits and education, to be a hewer of the forest and a tiller of the soil. Roughing It in the Bush I'm none of your common hewers of wood and drawers of water; and don't you forget it. Major Barbara They are but hewers of wood and drawers of water for me. The Admirable Crichton As for Lisfranc, I can say little more of him than that he was a great drawer of blood and hewer of members. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 He was drawn up perfectly insensible, together with a great brawny-armed hewer, a vehement Chartist, and hitherto his great enemy, but who now held him in his arms like a baby, so tenderly and anxiously. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Oh that we—we, the hewers of wood and drawers of water—had been swept away, so that the proud might learn what the world would be without us! The Lady of Lyons The effect of the insane attempt to subjugate England by means of Ireland was that the Irish became hewers of wood and drawers of water to the English. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 The temptation to come down from her throne, and become a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water is very strong. Gala-days A head by a hewer of milestones joined to a bosom by Praxiteles would not surprise or shock us more than this supplement. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 The joiners, the weavers, the cartwrights, the smiths, the hewers of wood, the milkers of cows, the knitters, the sewers, the cooks, the washerwomen—all had their special lovefeasts. A History of the Moravian Church I am a hewer of wood, but if I accept the position frankly and do not set up to be a Towneley, it does not matter.” The Way of All Flesh To him slaves were hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come Next comes the labourer—the hewer of wood, the drawer of water—slouching wearily to his toil; sleep clinging still about his leaden eyes, his pittance of food carried tied up in a dish-clout. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow He made them hewers of wood and drawers of water. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 In the cities they are becoming hewers of wood and drawers of water. North America — Volume 1 Some of those who were diggers of trenches and hewers of cisterns said that it was their work which had wrought the change. The Blue Flower Prove that the first aim is not to keep us as hewers of wood and drawers of water to men who have the power. Native Life in South Africa For even then we shall have enough left to be our hewers of wood and carriers of water; an abundance will remain to do all the work that requires neither brains nor gifts. London's Underworld The will of man is but an instrument Disposed and predetermined to its action According unto the decree of God, Being as much subordinate thereto As is the axe unto the hewer's hand! The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Six months after the works had begun, he was made head of a gang of hewers. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern He has no desire to rule, and no wish to make the natives hewers of wood and drawers of water. Russia Besides Mr Sprose, Mr Waikle of Gowanry, a quiet hewer out of the image of holiness in the heart, was likewise invited, all in addition to our old stoops from the adjacent parishes. The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder Some say he was a hewer of wood and worked for hire. La Sainte Courtisane I, who preached contentment with a humble lot, and justified the vocation even of hewers of wood and drawers of water in God’s service—I, His ordained minister, almost rave in my restlessness. Jane Eyre And, last of all, are the unskilled laborers, the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the ditch-diggers, the men of pick and shovel, the helpers, lumpers, roustabouts. War of the Classes We have nothing save the bottle of “pain-killer,” which will not fill emptiness, so we must bend to the yoke of the unbeliever and become hewers of wood and drawers of water. The Faith of Men And in the end he became a hewer of wood and drawer of water at the beck and call of Moosu. The Faith of Men |
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