Hewer

"I suppose I'm what the Bible calls a hewer of wood and a drawer of water," he would say to himself; for hardly less onerous than the task of keeping the fire in fuel was that of keeping well filled the two water-barrels that stood on either side of the door -- one for the thirsty shantymen, the other for Baptiste's culinary needs. ❋ Unknown (1881)

"hewer," who with his huge, broad axe made square the "stick," as the great piece of timber is called. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Gideon or Gedeon (Hebrew "hewer"), also called JEROBAAL (Judges, vi, ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

And in the end he became a hewer of wood and drawer of water at the beck and call of Moosu. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And in the end he became a hewer of wood and drawer of water at the beck and call of ❋ Unknown (2010)

Being but a hewer of wood and drawer of water, she is rheumatic. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Gazette; a barrister maybe, whose name will be famous some day: a hewer of marble perhaps: a surgeon whose patients have not come yet; and one or two men about town who like this queer assembly better than haunts much more splendid. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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: ❋ Unknown (2006)

Parload is a famous man now, a great figure in a great time, his work upon intersecting radiations has broadened the intellectual horizon of mankind for ever, and I, who am at best a hewer of intellectual wood, a drawer of living water, can smile, and he can smile, to think how I patronized and posed and jabbered over him in the darkness of those early days. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

But the present task was hateful to him; for any big-armed yokel, or common wood-hewer, might have done as much as he could do, and perhaps more, at it, and could have taken the same wage over it. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Being of course hated by his fellow servants, the renegade at last fell into disgrace, and exchanging the pipe-stick for the hatchet, he became a hewer of wood. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"Simna, my friend, I swear to you by the blue of the sky and the green of the sea that I am no more a 'sorcerer" than any man or woman of my village, be they herder of cattle, hewer of wood, thresher of grain, or scraper of hides. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)

• Despite our self-image as a drawer of water and hewer of wood, we have, in fact, evolved into an advanced manufacturing and services economy. ❋ Unknown (1992)

The second reason is that Canada is no longer a drawer of water and hewer of wood. ❋ Unknown (1986)

It is the "drawer of water and hewer of wood," having pretty much the same relationship to the West as Yugoslavia had to Russia in the 1940's when she made her historic break from Soviet orbit. ❋ Unknown (1966)

There is a growing number among South Africa's White population that realise that the Non-White cannot forever remain "the hewer of wood and the drawer of water." ❋ Unknown (1959)

As the site of half of Canada's manufacturing industry, Ontario is far more than a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. ❋ Unknown (1956)

The negro has been made the hewer of wood and the drawer of water for nearly all other nations. ❋ William Wells Brown (N/A)

A solitary man, who was of the tribe of Manasseh, and who had got his name of Gideon, or _the hewer_, from his stature and his great strength, was threshing wheat by a winepress in Ophrah. ❋ Various (N/A)

[WoW]! [Bubzy] is being a [bluh-e] hewer again~ ❋ TehBadBitch (2004)

Girl one: Damn did you see [mitch hewer] on tv last night Girl two: Yes!! He is so hot I want to [jump] into the tv and [snog] his face off Girl one: Nice. ❋ My Pseudonym Is This. (2009)

orc hewer [that nigga] ❋ Final Judgement (2012)

[lee hewer]: [vibes] ❋ Heheyessir69 (2020)