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  • s  cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel

  • Desperate and half demented, McGee writes a note leaving all The Busted Flush and Miss Agnes, the elderly "hand-hewn" Rolls-Royce pickup truck to his old pal and .
  • They are not--I think, unless someone was very handy--hand-hewn canoes someone might have carved or lashed together on an island.
  • It is also an original and winning statement of a hand-hewn personal philosophy.
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  • Munson: Iowa bridge could gain an older 'sister' in China
    Glenna Finney stood at the mouth of the Roseman Covered Bridge here - a bridge hand-hewn from timber in 1883 with the sweat and axes of local farmers - and sounded both honored and flabbergasted by the proposal from Ren Haifeng, a fellow tourism official from the other side of the globe.
    June 19, 2013 - The Des Moines Register
Quotes

  • Todd Oldham in Dallas Morning News
    Mom really chose the palettes and most of the techniques herself,says Todd. "We all love the same materials, such as natural hand-hewn textures and custom-made everything, so it was easy for us to work together."

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