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• “Every evening, at dusk, a statuesque semi-naked Fijian played on a huge drum, hewn from the trunk of an enormous coconut palm, which was the announcement that dinner was served.”

  Archive 2009-01-01

• “He has brought me a small bird hewn from a piece of cypress.”

  Fictionaut: The Tombwatcher's Tale

• “Images came in every day of some ashen soul being carried out of the crush, as if they were just chisel-hewn from the concrete — dusty and a bit broken of course, but still alive with a thumbs up for the camera as they go by.”

  Archive 2010-02-01

• “Pipe was laid, glass was sealed into the window slots, granite was hewn from a Vermont mountain and shipped all the way to its kitchen counters.”

  Misleading Indicator

• “During my recent visit, Ali, a local artisan, demonstrated his trade for me — weaving rugs on a loom built by his grandfather, working in a room hewn from the limestone cliffs by a more distant ancestor.”

  Turkish Bath

• “Concepts, characters, subplots and themes are wildly thrown into the mix like drunken punches and then abandoned, never to be seen again: A whole city 'hewn from the giant trees of a great forest'!”

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• “A pulpit bowl hewn from a single block of stone, a 1929 reading desk made of panels from a sixteenth century box pew and a colourful organ case painted like one you'd find in a steam-driven fairground.”

  Archive 2007-09-01

• “Crafted from tropical hardwoods, the thick rounded tops are hand-hewn from a single piece of wood, and range in size from twelve to twenty-four inches in diameter.”

  Mexican cocinas: the colonial kitchen

• “In Ontario, a century ago, school-houses were putting in an appearance in the settlements which had been hewn from the forests.”

  Are the Schools Preparing Youth to Take Over?

• “It should be explained that these names, pronounced as they stand, are rough-hewn renditions of the Spanish words cebolla, "onion," and cebolleta, "little onion.”

  Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert

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