rough-hew

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It also engages the idea that some things may be hard-wired into our blood, echoing Hamlet’s phrase about how there’s a “divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2016

Truly, as the poet says, there's a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.

From Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel by Kilpatrick, Florence A. (Florence Antoinette)

To shape the ends of wool-skewers, i.e., to point them, requires a degree of skill; any one can rough-hew them.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various

Are we to understand, then, that the architects thought of nothing but "hard utility," and that it was some æsthetic divinity that shaped their blocks, rough-hew them how they might?

From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by Archer, William

To shape the ends of wood skewers, i. e., to point them, requires a degree of skill: any one can rough-hew them.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob