Gideon or Gedeon (Hebrew "hewer"), also called JEROBAAL (Judges, vi. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
She had become a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
Being but a hewer of wood and drawer of water, she is rheumatic. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
But in his lowly station as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
The second reason is that Canada is no longer a drawer of water and hewer of wood. From Wordnik.com. [Budget 1986] Reference
And in the end he became a hewer of wood and drawer of water at the beck and call of. From Wordnik.com. [A HYPERBOREAN BREW] Reference
He'll be our hewer of wood and drawer of water, to say nothing of washing the dishes. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
And in the end he became a hewer of wood and drawer of water at the beck and call of Moosu. From Wordnik.com. [A HYPERBOREAN BREW] Reference
As the site of half of Canada's manufacturing industry, Ontario is far more than a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario's Development and Economic Prospects] Reference
The average that each hewer will raise per day is from two to three tons in thin, and three to four tons in thick seams. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects] Reference
The largest quantity raised by any hewer on an average of the colliers of England is about six tons a day of eight hours. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects] Reference
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water. From Wordnik.com. [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference
The one who ignores the "moment of inertia" is a disturber, whether he is a director or a "hewer of wood and carrier of water". From Wordnik.com. [Industrial Progress and Human Economics] Reference
The English gentleman who in England had fallen to be a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water would never have "kept his dress clothes.". From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Little Dick's father, Samuel Kempson, was a hewer. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference
No hewer of our mountain oaks suspends his axe in fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Meanwhile, his hero, the hewer of rails and forger of homely speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Crisis — Complete] Reference
Canaan that made him for all time 'a hewer of wood and drawer of water. '. From Wordnik.com. [Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization] Reference
But at home he was a mere Gibeonite, a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
He was not only a hewer of wood, but often a bearer of wood as well as of water. From Wordnik.com. [Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories] Reference
Another origin of Perrier is, through French, from Lat. petrarius, a stone-hewer. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Therefore in the school I was a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water to my father. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
Eng. stan-heawere, stone-hewer, is contracted to Stanier, now almost swallowed up by. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
"Would you advise me, then, to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, in preference?". From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
Irish Catholic in Wigtonshire a hewer of wood and a drawer of water to his Presbyterian masters. From Wordnik.com. [Patsy] Reference
The daughter is a mere slave; unnoticed and neglected -- a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water. From Wordnik.com. [The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway] Reference
The roof of them is propped up as the hewer works on, till all the coal likely to fall is hewn away. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference
Hagger, who had completely recovered from his accident, and was now a hewer, was among his companions. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference
As for Lisfranc, I can say little more of him than that he was a great drawer of blood and hewer of members. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
There was he who bore a name great from of old, Folk-wolf to wit, bearing on his shield the axe of the hewer. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale] Reference
The temptation to come down from her throne, and become a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water is very strong. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
This reason alone made me a hewer of wood amongst foul-mouthed companions, a tar-bedaubed loafer in a crew of loafers. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea] Reference
Born and educated to administer, if not to rule, here was he fetching and carrying, a hewer of ham and a drawer of corks. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Lyveden] Reference
Man has got accustomed to serve as her hewer of wood and drawer of water, and to expect nothing from her but poetry and refinement. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference
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