hews

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He hews, as many leaves without a bead,

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  1. transitive verb To make or shape with or as if with an ax: hew a path through the underbrush.
  2. transitive verb To cut down with an ax; fell: hew an oak.
  3. transitive verb To strike or cut; cleave.

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  • The central narrative of Spellbound hews the conventional Hitchcockian template-innocent men on the lam from the law and the beautiful women who love them-but —  The Morning News
  • It's not a coincidence that the best part of the movie is the one that hews most closely to the actual experience of reading the book -- the sequence where Dr. Manhattan tells the story of his life, shown in brief fragments, some only a few seconds long, jumbled up out of sequence, with Philip Glass 'beautiful score to —  The Quick and the Ed
  • The strange thing is, despite the fact that it's set among soldiers rather than cops, "The Unit" hews pretty closely to the established CBS drama formula, which is seen on everything from
  • On the question of extending the Endangered Species Act to polar bears, Sarah Palin hews to the Stephen Colbert position. —  The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
  • The Meccan sura 46 is the last of the "Ha Mim" series of suras (40-46), and hews closely to the themes of the others: the Qur'an is revealed by Allah (v. 2); Allah created the heavens and the earth for a just purpose, but the unbelievers reject faith (v. 3); those whom they pray to besides Allah are powerless (vv. 4-5); the unbelievers dismiss the Qur'an as "sorcery" —  RightWingBob.com
 

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