“O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.”
William Shakespeare
“And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.”
“And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.”
Bible
“For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.”
“Last year, we did hand hewing of the logs with our Fall Fest, this year as we raise it, and depending on where we're at next year, we might have another component for the cabin again next year.”
Michael Stephan
“And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.”
