No great heroic hewing, just enough to do the job.

So Karl went to his hewing and Anna to her weeding.

Still it is clear that your optimum bent lies elsewhere than in the hewing and shaping of rock.

I hear the hewing of tools.

"You almost have to count on it coming," said Mr. Hewing, whose small family farm dates from the 13th century.

Big and bad was the fighting, great and terrible the hewing, the war cries, the blood and the torment.

Caroline M. Hewing, librarian and library advocate, was the first children's library associate.

Caneven the Presence Itself be a form of temptation to trickme away from the wonderful hewing and moulding place.

About 45 miles east, in Ochtrup, Germany, Heinz Hewing is waiting in dread.

Hávard the Hewing, in the fleet of Haakon, first spots Þorgerðr there and then many others see her.

The word hewing is a general term meaning to strike or blow with a tool such as an axe or sword; to chop or gash.

While the hewing of the second story logs is relatively crude, its notching is very precise, giving it the strength to support the larger third story.

Not only was the use of burl not much of a tradition in Europe, neither was the hand hewing of bowls, platters, and dishes.

After high school he attended Hewing College and received his AB from William Jewel College.

In our new, sad state, we will be seen only in our work, in the hewing and tansporting and setting, in the homage and ransom."

Department of Self-Plagiarism Hewing to the journalistic dictum to "sell every piece twice," Mark Shields has perfected the art of recycling his own sound bites.

He stood up, took the pail from her, lifted it and drank deeply, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and said, "I must get back to my hewing."

Prior to the discovery of steel by any culture, all stone carving was carried out by using an abrasion technique, following rough hewing of the stone block using hammers.

Hewing to Tradition That stubborn hewing to tradition, both in the clothes Brooks Brothers sells and how it sells them, is a matter of pride for the 172-year-old company.

It is the orc-work, the wanton hewing - rárum - without even the bad excuse of feeding the fires, that has so angered us; and the treachery of a neighbour, who should have helped us.

These weapons are used to cut and to stab but their names suggest they were derived from the spear rather than a cutting weapon e.g. the Hewing Spear (höggspjót) and the atgeir[1].

And now you shall hear of the hard hewing and of a thing heavy to recount: the great slaughter that was made of the good Duke Benes of Aygremount, by the traitor Ganelon.

It is in the finery of our metals, the attentive hours with hammer and flame, the patient hewing of stone, the deft dance of weaving, that our true devotion, our true religion, is to be found.

As soon as the kettle boiled, I made porridge and coffee; and that, beyond the literal drawing of water, and the preparation of kindling, which it would be hyperbolical to call the hewing of wood, ended my domestic duties for the day.

I might have to hew it to pieces to stop its attack.

"In this job it is necessary to hew to the line."

As national intelligence director, he will have to hew to a more independent standard.

It's no good trying to hew wood with a sword.

But if reporters were to hew to legal standards, very little would be reported beyond what officials want people to hear.

And people who hew to this ethic are still rewarded.

These are three books that have attempted to hew fiction from the fact of 9/11.

"I don't plan to hew to that 100 percent," he told the financial control board.

From the expressions on their faces, they wanted to hew more than stone.

I believe he'll hew to his side of our bargain."

If you pay too much attention to them you will never hew out anything worth while.

The vote on confirmation is expected to hew closely to party lines.

The lumberjacks could hew up to 50 ties a day.

What said the dog whom I hope to hew down at daybreak?

Over the course of a season, a player's performance will hew closely to his actual statistics.

The airlines would hew to the law as written.

He does not hew to a doctrinaire hostility to government programs.

The fastest way to find safe harbor now was to hew to their original course.

It felt painfully difficult to hew out another course.

Failed to hew out a place of mine own?

Picasso, Apollinaire and their friends did not hew to a single line.

"Now we can hew our own timbers for the summer house.

Then it took him but a short time to hew his way through the rock. '

They hew to the Democratic center on nearly every social issue, and both have made more access to higher education a centerpiece of their campaigns.

Most journalists hew to a clear line between observing a story and participating in it.