" The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry.
We will hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope!
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
You better hew to the line.
" The Bramble made answer: "You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree.
To-day you must hew down the whole of the forest, split the wood into logs, and pile them up, and everything must be finished by the evening.
" "Take care, father, I will soon hew that tree there, so that it will split.
She gave the girl dirty tangled flax to spin, and she had to fetch water in a bucket with a hole in it, and the boy had to hew down a tree with a blunt axe, and they got nothing to eat but dumplings as hard as stones.
It happened that the eldest wanted to go into the forest to hew wood, and before he went his mother gave him a beautiful sweet cake and a bottle of wine in order that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst.
She answered, alas poor child, you have got into a murderer's den, your bridegroom does live here, but he will hew you in pieces, and kill you, and then he will cook you, and eat you.
When I have given the blow, if he is not killed by it, you must cut him down and hew his body to pieces.
And they had to bring him an axe and a pickaxe that he might hew the pigeon-house to pieces, but no one was inside it.
