The Emperor himself, always a mystical fatalist rather than the hewer of his own fortune, felt the growing inertia of his final malady.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
All this was beyond the self-taught hewer of coursed rubble and of gargoyles; the arch itself must be two feet wider than any he had yet attempted; but on a worthy east window he had set his heart.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung
He was not only a hewer of wood, but often a bearer of wood as well as of water.
"Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories"
Mrs. Woods Baker