Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
Consequently they tend to sink to the position of hewers of wood and drawers of water to the Moslems, these on their side inevitably developing the defects of an exclusive dominant caste.
By such means, they hoped, the brain of France would control the body, the rural population inevitably taking the position of hewers of wood and drawers of water, both in a political and material sense.
That he can't throw away thousands just to insure the lives of a few hewers and trammers?
I can't throw away thousands to insure a few hewers and trammers against an accident which might have happened any day, but never has happened yet.
The learned professor infers that this vast army will be "doomed to remain where they have been, and be hewers of wood and drawers of water," because they form a "distinct alien race.
There were some who remained to be hewersof wood and drawers of water.
Hewers of wood and drawers of water shall they be: they are condemned already.
They will grow up like the children around them: they will join the hopeless casuals: they will be hewers of wood.
Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewersof wood.
Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water: 29:12.
Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water, into the house of my God.
And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus king of the Persians had given them.
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation.
Now, although to draw water is not very good, Yet we all should rejoice to be hewers of Wood.
It would have been better for you, to have remained illiterate, and even to have been hewers of wood.
It would have been better for you, to have remained illiterate, and to have been even hewers of wood.
Moreover, there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that wast laid out for the house to repair it.
They must be now hewers of wood, and drawers of water, and the fingers whereon diamonds used to sparkle, must clench the axe and the hoe.
The fine works of Yorktown are monuments to negro labor, for they were the hewers and the diggers.
And he set three score and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens and four score thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people awork" (2 Chron.
Be ye now accursed, and may ye never cease to be servants, and drawers of water, and hewers of wood for the house of my God.
As one of the Cambridge Platonists said, we must not make our intellectual faculties Gibeonites, hewers of wood and drawers of water to the will and affections.
He opposes our education, so as to be able to control our political rights, and make us only "hewers of wood and drawers of water.
They have crushed them, persecuted them, made them hewers of wood and drawers of water.
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water, for the congregation, and for the altar of the Lord, even unto this day.
What remained went to hewersof wood and drawers of water, the workers, women and men, who provided the necessaries, comforts, luxuries upon which physical survival and social status depended.
Sidonian hewers were put to work,--the most skilful of all known woodmen; and the timbers of Lebanon were supplied in abundance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hewers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
