Indeed the name Hews seemed to have been closely connected with music and the stage.
Surely the boy who played on the virginals to the dying father of Sidney's Stella was none other but the Will Hews to whom Shakespeare dedicated the Sonnets, and who he tells us was himself sweet 'music to hear.
It was at least something to have discovered that Will Hews was an Elizabethan name.
He whirls his sword around, without delay, And hews through adverse foes an ample way, To find fierce Turnus, of his conquest proud.
A carpenter hews a figure out of wood, a goldsmith adorns it with gems, a tailor clothes it, and a monk animates it with life.
He has an absolute faith in the end he is pursuing, and he simply hews his way to it as a woodman hews his way through the forest, axe in hand.
Green says: "He had an absolute faith in the end he was pursuing, and he simply hews his way to it, as a woodman hews his way through the forest, axe in hand.
I married Sam Hews in Wake County when I wus fifteen years old.
He hews down the forests and renders again fit for cultivation fields which generations had let run wild.
With his ax he hews off a limb of a tree, and puts that limb upon his own shoulder, and then he says to his men, "You do the same.
Skarphedinn dashes the spearhaft in two, and lifts up his axe and hews at Sigmund, and cleaves his shield down to below the handle.
Skarphedinn made a side blow at him with his axe, "the ogress of war," and hews asunder his backbone.
Then Skarphedinn hews at Sigmund with his axe, the "Ogress of war".
He hews with his sword at the bench, but strikes a cross-beam as he brandished the weapon aloft.
Thrain hews at Kol, and the stroke came on his leg so that it cut it off.
Kol hews at him, and the blow fell on Thrain's shield, and cleft it down from top to bottom.
Then Kari rushes at him, and hews at him on the breast with his sword, and the blow passed at once into his chest, and he got his death there and then.
Hrapp hewsat Grim there and then with his axe; Helgi sees this and cuts at Hrapp's arm, and cut it off, and down fell the axe.
He hews him posts, he hews him balks, He early toils and late; Out spake the Trolds within the hill: “Who knocks at such a rate?
He hews away our sheltering wood, Meanwhile shall we be tame?
He hews the oak and poplar tall, He fells the good beech tree; Then fill’d was the laidly Trold with spite That he should make so free.
At last he sold 6 Hews for half a Royall of 8 which is not much above two shillings.
Now his helmet is struck from his head; an exulting cheer rises from the rabble that surge around him; but still he towers above them like a rock, and hews another, another, and another down!
He is not the best Wright that hews the maniest speals.
He that hews over hie, the spail will fall into his eye.
The choice of three deaths is offered, the sword chosen, he is entreated to spare his coat, she seizes his sword and hews off his head.
She swims to a stake, to which she clings, and John hews her in three, #QQ#.
He that depends Upon your favours swims with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes.
But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hews down and fells the hardest-timber'd oak.
He that depends Upon your favours swims with fins of lead And hewsdown Oaks with Rushes.
He that depends Upon your favours swims with fins of lead And hews down Oaks with rushes.
Now then, like Scanderbeg he falls to work, And hews the Pudding as he hew’d the Turk.
But what was more religious than to see The women in their strains of piety, Who like the Seraphins in various hews Adorn’d the Chancell and the highest pews.
The voice of Jehovah cleaves [or, hews out] fire flames.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hews" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
