“I'm the hewer of wood and the hauler of water, or, to speak more correctly, I'm the hauler of both.”

“Would you advise me, then, to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, in preference?”

“My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire.”

“The hewers of wood have long claimed that slaughtering forests is good for the environment.”

“It took 70,000 burden bearers, 80,000 stone hewers, 3,300 officers, and a forced levy of 30,000 subjects 13 years to finish.”

“The people in western Canada are not going to be considered to be hewers of wood and drawers of water anymore.”