A favourite at the Old Bailey, and eke at the Sessions, Mr. Stryver had begun cautiously tohew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.
She flung back the fortnight on his hands as if he had been an idler indifferent to dates, instead of an active young diplomatist who, to respond to her call, had had tohew his way through a very jungle of engagements!
Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack andhew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousnesse, ye that seeke the Lord: looke vnto the rocke whence yee arehewen, and to the hole of the pitte whence ye are digged.
The oak he had hauled was beinghewed into shape by a neighbour who knew how, and every wagon that carried a log to the city to be dressed at the mill brought back timber for side walls, joists, and rafters.
2003 April 26,Adrienne Rich, “Hewn from the living words”, inThe Guardian[3],→ISSN:
In 1974, I spoke of poetry as “hewn from the commonest living substance” as a doorframe ishewn of wood.
2022 December 15, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, inThe Guardian[4]:
Constructed by a firm named Posiva,Onkalo has beenhewn into the island ofOlkiluoto, a brief bridge’s length off Finland’s south-west coast.
Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; hehewed to the line.
1998,Frank M. Robinson, Lawrence Davidson,Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines[6], Collectors Press, Inc.,→ISBN, page103:
Inside the stories usuallyhewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.
2008,Chester E. Finn,Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik, Princeton University Press,→ISBN,page28:
Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties,[…] Thesehewed to the recommendations of the Plowden Report,[…]
2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid on the Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, inThe Onion AV Club[7]:
Hewing to the old comedy convention of beginning a speech by randomly referencing something in eyesight, Homer begins his talk about the birds and the bees by saying that women are like refrigerators: they’re all about six feet tall and weigh three hundred pounds and make ice cubes.
2013 October 2, Alex Pappademas, “Leuqes! LEUQES!LEUQES! – TheShining sequel and what it says about Stephen King”, inGrantland.com[8], retrieved16 October 2013:
King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time Ihewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."
He taught to imitate that Lady trew, Whose semblance she did carrie under feignedhew.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for“hew”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
