hand-hewed

Updated: May 1, 2025

So did I, for more reasons than one. What I wanted was peace, and plenty of it, with Vee more or less disengaged. Nothin' could have been more promisin' either than the openin' of that first dinner party. Pa Pulsifer had showed up about six o'clock from the Country Club, with his rugged, hand-hewed face tinted up cheery.

Sewell Ford - Torchy, Private Sec.

Each log was hand-hewed and squared an expensive whim when the axemen received a daily wage of fifteen dollars; but to him nothing could be too costly for the home in which Mabel Holmes was to live. So he went about with the building of the cabin, singing, "And oh, my fair, would I somewhere might house my heart with thee!"

Jack London - The Faith of Men