"Hewer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shared the various hardships that befell all the early Texan settlers, moving inland later to a more healthy locality. Thus the education of young Lovelace was one of privation. Like other boys in pioneer families, he became in turn a hewer of wood or drawer of water, as the necessities of the household required, in reclaiming the wilderness. When Austin hoisted the new-born Lone Star flag, and called upon the sturdy pioneers to defend it, the adventurous ...
— A Texas Matchmaker • Andy Adams
... than good and deserved to be burned at the stake; had you done anything, or said anything, against the cause which I have tried to serve for the last thirty years, I should have known how to answer, but now I do not. I have been as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water to this movement. I know nothing and have known nothing of oratory or rhetoric. Whatever I have done has been done because I wanted to see better conditions, better surroundings, better circumstances for women. ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper
... tell the interviewers they never write more than five hundred words a day. But I am only a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, so ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various
... man who actually directs work along such lines is the most valuable to the world. The one who ignores the "moment of inertia" is a disturber, whether he is a director or a "hewer of wood and carrier ...
— Industrial Progress and Human Economics • James Hartness |
