1601, William Shakespeare, :Our indiscretion sometimes serues vs well, When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs, There's a Diuinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
1870, J. Clifton Ward, Geological Magazine, VII.67:It seems to me, then, that one must either be a ‘marinist’ ..., or be a sub-äerialist, and believe than in Pre-Permian times the sea rough-hewed a block of country which the atmosphere has ever since been carving into its now complex and beautiful form.
1915, George Wharton James, The Lake of the Sky:Its erosion is a constant process of alternate rough hewing and planing.
