Every man was expected to hew out fifty snaths in a day.

The quarry is deep, the tools too weak to hew out the stones.

Here they settled, to hew out for themselves a second home in the wilderness.

We forsake the fountain of living water, and hew out to ourselves clumsy cisterns.

He could hew out a career that would honor her.

Though ye hew out dwellings in the mountain, being skilful?

And, insolent that ye are, will ye hew out your dwellings in the mountains?

And they used to hew out dwellings from the hills, (wherein they dwelt) secure.

Farewell to thee, Norman; sharpen thy swords, hew out thy vessels, and goad thy slow barons.

He set to work to hew out

Suppose a passage first cut; then they hew out chambers on either side, each about twelve feet wide.

We shall not be obliged to hew out our material with broadaxes, nor blast it out with dynamite.

You haven't pluck to take your fate into your own hands and hew out a way for yourself.

If Joseph wished, therefore, to rise among his fellows, he must hew out his own path to greatness.

But thoughtest thou that I should pander to thy lust, and hew out a pathway to thy desire?

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.