hewer

• “I suppose I'm what the Bible calls a hewer of wood and a drawer of water," he would say to himself; for hardly less onerous than the task of keeping the fire in fuel was that of keeping well filled the two water-barrels that stood on either side of the door -- one for the thirsty shantymen, the other for Baptiste's culinary needs.”

  The Young Woodsman Life in the Forests of Canada

• “hewer," who with his huge, broad axe made square the "stick," as the great piece of timber is called.”

  The Young Woodsman Life in the Forests of Canada

• “Gideon or Gedeon (Hebrew "hewer"), also called JEROBAAL (Judges, vi,”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “And in the end he became a hewer of wood and drawer of water at the beck and call of Moosu.”

  A HYPERBOREAN BREW

• “And in the end he became a hewer of wood and drawer of water at the beck and call of”

  A HYPERBOREAN BREW

• “Being but a hewer of wood and drawer of water, she is rheumatic.”

  Barnaby Rudge

• “Parload is a famous man now, a great figure in a great time, his work upon intersecting radiations has broadened the intellectual horizon of mankind for ever, and I, who am at best a hewer of intellectual wood, a drawer of living water, can smile, and he can smile, to think how I patronized and posed and jabbered over him in the darkness of those early days.”

  In the Days of the Comet

• “Gazette; a barrister maybe, whose name will be famous some day: a hewer of marble perhaps: a surgeon whose patients have not come yet; and one or two men about town who like this queer assembly better than haunts much more splendid.”

  The Newcomes

• “Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:”

  Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences

• “But the present task was hateful to him; for any big-armed yokel, or common wood-hewer, might have done as much as he could do, and perhaps more, at it, and could have taken the same wage over it.”

  Springhaven

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