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    1. Like his spirit, the ball Hew out of the


    2. Hew Len suggests that our minds can only be influenced by two things: memories or


    3. 6 Now therefore command you that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with your servants, and to you


    4. gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew brought stones to build the house of God


    5. came down from Heaven; 14 He cried aloud, and said so, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and


    6. Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots of it in the Earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender


    7. One view holds that the Court should hew as closely as possible to the written text, and to the intent of the framers as directly inferred from the text, or from contemporaneous written documents


    8. 24 Then spoke the Lord to Moses to hew two stone tablets and to bring them up to the Lord, who would write on them the Ten Commandments


    9. 54 And Joshua appointed them on that day to hew wood and to draw water, and he divided them for slaves to all the tribes of Israel


    10. 1 And the Lord said to Moses, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first: and I will write on these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke

    11. 5 As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and alights on his neighbour, so that he die; he shall flee to one of those cities, and live:


    12. 24 Then spoke the Lord to Moses to hew two stone tablets and to bring them up to the Lord who would write on them the Ten Commandments


    13. 54 And Joshua appointed them on that day to hew wood and to draw water and he divided them for slaves to all the tribes of Israel


    14. And the rectangular stones were hewn and put in place of those that were taken away; but the rounded stones were not put into the building because they were hard to hew and appeared to field slowly to the chisel; they were deposited however beside the tower as if intended to be hewn and used in the building for they were exceedingly brilliant


    15. "The greater part of these stones" he said "I will hew and put into the building and they will harmonize with the others


    16. This doesn’t mean that you need to hew completely to this format


    17. “You pwomise you not evew huwt hew again?”


    18. He sought to lift his sword, to hew down the serpentine stalks, but his arm hung lifeless at his side


    19. Beside himself with fury he lifted his saber as though to hew through the marble, when a sudden sound brought him about, eyes blazing


    20. Then as he lifted his sword with his right hand to hew at the marble, his groping left encountered a metal bolt that evidently slipped into place at the closing of the door

    21. His experienced touch told him the bars were hard as the sword; an attempt to hew his way to freedom would only splinter his one weapon


    22. Hew gritted his teeth and staggered to his feet, running ahead after Lezura with the bat


    23. cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut


    24. He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and


    25. and it is his job to hew to those outcomes


    26. Even in adulthood they hew very closely to the images their parents and society inculcated into them


    27. And he would have stood there in the way of my brothers, knocking Herist’s head around with his boots and waiting for justice to hew the earth into halves, had Trid not pulled him aside and sat on his legs


    28. But because I don't hew to any society-sanctioned view of a supreme deity or corporate-structured religion's mumbo-jumbo for doing as she did, I'm oft considered a nutcase…while she's revered as a saint


    29. Hew walked towards the door, but before he walked out he turned to address Jacob one last time


    30. Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted

    31. Don Quixote merely observed him steadily, longing for him to leap from the cart and come to close quarters with him, when he hoped to hew him in pieces


    32. It is orc-necks I would hew, not shave the


    33. "When I have given him a blow, if he is not killed by it, you must cut him down and hew his body to pieces


    34. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter


    35. A man who employs ten servants in livery, coachmen and cooks, who has pictures and pianos, must certainly regard as strange and even ridiculous the simple preliminary duty of, I do not say a good man, but of every man who is not an animal, to hew that wood with which his food is cooked and by which he is warmed; to clean those boots in which he carelessly stepped into the mud; to bring that water with which he keeps himself clean; and to carry away those slops in which he has washed himself


    36. Thirdly, “The dependence of the parts increases so that the life of each part depends upon the lives and activities of all the others”: it is exactly the same with the forest; the nut-tree keeps the trunks warm (if you hew it down, the other trees will be frozen in winter), the underwood keeps off wind, the seed-trees continue the species, the tall and leafy ones give shadow, and the life of each tree depends upon that of the rest


    37. All learned men are occupied with their sacred businesses, which lead to the investigation of protoplasms, the spectrum analysis of stars, and so on: but concerning investigations as to how to set an axe, or with what kind it is more advantageous to hew; which saw is the most handy; with what flour bread shall be made, how it may best be kneaded, how to set it to rise; how to heat and to build stoves; what food, drink or crockery-ware it is best to use; what mushrooms may be eaten, and how they may be prepared more conveniently,—science never troubles itself, or does so very slightly


    38. What, then, will result from the circumstance that ten men plough, hew wood, make boots, not from necessity, but in acknowledgment that man needs work, and that the more he works, the better it will be for him?


    39. Hence it results that half a score of men may till the soil, hew wood, and make shoes, not from necessity, but in consequence of an acknowledgment of the fact that man should work, and that the more he works the better it will be for him


    1. And hewed out a wine vat for the vintner


    2. 17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house


    3. 36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams


    4. 9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the


    5. 11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars


    6. 12 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


    7. 12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all


    8. you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a tomb here, as he who cuts himself out a tomb on high, and that


    9. grounds towards the mangled gate of hewed iron that clung


    10. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and your judgments are as

    11. captain, hewed them in pieces, struck off their heads and throw them to those who were without


    12. 21 And Angeas saw this thing, and he commanded all his officers to assemble the hewers of stone in thousands and tens of thousands, and they hewed stone without number, and the builders came and they built an exceedingly strong bridge, and they conveyed the spring of water from the land of Chittim to Africa, and those waters were for Jania the queen and for all her concerns, to drink from and to bake, wash and bathe with it, and also to water with it all seed from which food can be obtained, and all fruit of the ground


    13. at the huge hand hewed timbers that crisscrossed the space


    14. 21 And Angeas saw this thing and he commanded all his officers to assemble the hewers of stone in thousands and tens of thousands and they hewed stone without number and the builders came and they built an exceedingly strong bridge and they conveyed the spring of water from the land of Chittim to Africa and those waters were for Jania the queen and for all her concerns to drink from and to bake wash and bathe with it and also to water with it all seed from which food can be obtained and all fruit of the ground


    15. 15 Which when the priests of Nanea had set out and he was entered with a small company into the compass of the temple they shut the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in: 16 And opening a privy door of the roof they threw stones like thunderbolts and struck down the captain hewed them in pieces struck off their heads and throw them to those who were without


    16. Next he examined those that had scabs; and he took and hewed many of these and commanded the virgins to take them up and cast them into the building


    17. He next examined those that had cracks; and he hewed many of these and commanded them to be carried by the virgins to the building: and they were placed on the outside because they were found to be sounder than the others; but the rest on account of the multitude of the cracks could not be hewn and for this reason therefore they were rejected from the building of the tower


    18. " "If therefore" I said "they must why do you torment yourself and not at once choose for the building those which you prefer and fit them into it?" He selected the larger ones among them and the shining ones and hewed them; and the virgins carried and fitted them into the outside parts of the building


    19. The rift hewed by the Dire Queen is broken,” Loki said


    20. As the fighters marched along the serpentine passage they passed many cracks and roughly hewed doorways

    21. Many of these rocks appear freshly hewed,” said the apprentice wizard


    22. Taliesin and his friends strode past circular portals hewed in the walls


    23. “This clay was shoddily hewed at best,” Smithforge observed


    24. Smithforge acted quickly to bring his freshly hewed Gong from the hall outside


    25. They hewed at them with their sharpened steel


    26. They hewed at the legs of the hulking humanoids, shearing masses of rock from their bodies


    27. They hewed at the sod barrier blocking the entrance with their steel weapons


    28. They again came to a chamber, hewed by magic in the depths of the Under Earth


    29. He hewed at the Stalactite Forces on his left and right


    30. Lord Taliesin and the other fighters of Gaea hewed into the melee

    31. Conan rushed into the bows, and swinging his great sword, hewed nearly through the giant trunk, which was thicker than a man's body


    32. A shattering stroke of his scimitar hewed the lock asunder, and as he sprang through to the stair that loomed beyond it, he saw the head and shoulders of Khosatral crash through the other door


    33. And before the Lord, he hewed Agag into pieces with his sword


    34. In the interim one of his comrades lifted a broadsword with both hands and hewed through the king's left shoulder-plate, wounding the shoulder beneath


    35. They fled, and the beleaguered councilmen sallied from the palace and hewed into them with joyous abandon


    36. The invaders' numbers had engulfed the nineteen hundred knights of Conan, but about this compact wedge, which hewed deeper and deeper into the looser formation of their foes, the knights of Koth and Ophir swirled and smote in vain


    37. Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down,


    38. The scriptures talk frequently about alters, they are to be made of stone, and not hewed, not altered by mans’ hands, but stone at that, not the wooden so-called alters place under the pulpit of these ‘things’, they are a far cry from the order God implemented, and especially with their hand carved inscriptions


    39. He gleefully hewed away at her


    40. He swung the hunting knife while she ducked her head to block it, and with a strong force of her hand, hewed it with the broken tip, embedding itself into his forehead

    41. A local woodworker who played around the Beech tree as a boy hewed the pieces that were then shipped to England and ‘planted’ in Waxy O’Connor’s the following year


    42. There was a narrow road hewed out of the rocky sides of the pass itself along the one side that gave access to the top of the battlements along the wall from the Valley Land side


    43. Hand hewed logs were carved into benches, which made for a cozy conversation area


    44. With what strength he had he hewed at the crawling arm near the wrist, and


    45. great sweep Boromir hewed the head off another


    46. Boromir leaped forward and hewed at the arm with all his might; but his sword rang, glanced aside, and fell from his shaken hand


    47. Gimli hewed the legs from under another that had


    48. He hewed a two-handed stroke and laid the


    49. hewed Hbma's body before the gates of the Hornburg, after he was dead


    50. Forty-two he hewed in










    1. They were all the same, as if they were stamped by some machine, huge hulking impressions of men, as if a sculptor had ended after hewing out the rough form


    2. The seraph trolls each strode into the fray, hewing in semicircles with their steel swords


    3. Trocero and his house troops, hewing desperately, cut their way to Conan's side, and the great banner of Koth went down


    4. Sailors leaping down into the waist to grapple or smite at the naked white giant hewing like one possessed at the shackles, found themselves dragged down by the hands of slaves yet unfreed, while others, their broken chains whipping and snapping about their limbs, came up out of the waist like a blind, black torrent, screaming like fiends, smiting with broken oars and pieces of iron, tearing and rending with talons and teeth


    5. They surged across and completely destroyed the kingdom of Gunderland, and marched across ancient Aquilonia, hewing their irresistible way through the Pictish hosts


    6. Zechariah, the hewing of wisdom’s seven pillars in Proverbs, the stone cut out without hand in the Book of Daniel, and the gem and crystalline symbolism of The Apocalypse


    7. Compare it to the stone with seven eyes “engraved” in the Book of Zechariah, the hewing of wisdom’s seven pillars in Proverbs 9:1, the stone “cut out without hand” that grows into a great mountain in the Book of Daniel, and the gem and crystalline symbolism of The Apocalypse


    8. Calling wisdom by the pronouns "She" and “Her” and describing the feminine wisdom hewing


    9. hewing pillars is an undeniably symbolic statement linking wisdom to symbolic stone


    10. Zechariah, the hewing of wisdom’s seven pillars in Proverbs, the stone cut out without hand in the

    11. Compare it to the stone with seven eyes “engraved” in the Book of Zechariah, the hewing of


    12. Which was why she tried not to mention work, hewing to such comparatively scintillating topics as weather, sports, and that old standby, real estate


    13. the wanton hewing -- rbrum -- without even the bad excuse of feeding the


    14. with green-clad warriors leaping after them, hewing them down as they fled


    15. All night watchmen on the walls heard the rumour of the enemy that roamed outside, burning field and tree, and hewing any man that they found abroad, living or dead


    16. Gondor, and beat upon helm and head, and arm and shield as smiths hewing the


    17. Some were laying bricks, some hewing stones, some carrying up the heavy hods and pails and bringing them down empty


    1. I also confirmed that there were no early warnings as reported on the HEWS Seismic webpage


    2. For those of you who are not familiar, HEWS is the Humanitarian Early Warning System


    3. Furthermore, the statement that wisdom hews out Her seven pillars, perfectly and redundantly


    4. He slays, lays low, cleaves, hews; but art hath made


    5. Of course it's all paradox, don't you know, Hughes and hews and hues, the colour, but it's so typical the way he works it out


    6. And as they resume their climb, Charlie hews to the wall, away from the railing—acrophobic, to boot


    7. I saw he was of the material from which nature hews her heroes—Christian and Pagan—her lawgivers, her statesmen, her conquerors: a steadfast bulwark for great interests to rest upon; but, at the fireside, too often a cold cumbrous column, gloomy and out of place


    8. Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy, and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it


    9. And hews down oaks with rushes


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    Synonyms for "hew"

    hew hew out make shape fashion chop hack sever cut down fell

    "hew" definitions

    make or shape as with an axe


    strike with an axe; cut down, strike