Sample Sentences for
bane
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bane as in:  bane of my existence

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    He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror.†  (source)
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    It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other.... Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright!†  (source)
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    It now became useful, because wolf scats sometimes carry the eggs of a particularly baneful parasite which, if inhaled by man, hatch into minute worms that bore their way into his brain where they encyst, frequently with fatal results both to themselves and to their host.†  (source)
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    Then I sat down in a pink straight-backed wicker chair at an oaken desk, also painted pink, whose coarse-grained and sturdy construction reminded me of the desks used by schoolmarms in the grammar-school classrooms of my childhood, and with a pencil between thumb and forefinger confronted the first page of the yellow legal pad, its barrenness baneful to my eye.†  (source)
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    In what am I benefited by accompanying my son so far, since I now abandon him, and allow him to depart alone to the baneful climate of Africa?†  (source)
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    Bright and baneful was its voice, a shivering hot scream that made a man's bones seem to thrum within him.†  (source)
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    Your inexperience of the world, Miss Tulliver, prevents you from anticipating fully the very unjust conceptions that will probably be formed concerning your conduct,—conceptions which will have a baneful effect, even in spite of known evidence to disprove them.†  (source)
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    If gold had developed and intensified and liberated the worst passions of men, so the spirit of that atmosphere had its baneful effect upon her.†  (source)
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    In his Farewell Address, Washington had warned against "the baneful effects of the spirit of party."†  (source)
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    Much that was sad, much that was low, some things that were baneful, could be seen in Mixen Lane.†  (source)
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    Woe worth unto that man Who through hatred the baneful his soul shall shove into The fire's embrace; nought of fostering weens he, Nor of changing one whit.†  (source)
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    It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other.†  (source)
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    They also contain a multitude of Europeans who have been driven to the shores of the New World by their misfortunes or their misconduct; and these men inoculate the United States with all our vices, without bringing with them any of those interests which counteract their baneful influence.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    Bane walked over to stand next to Ronan.  (source)
    Bane = a name in this story
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    Suddenly BANE steps forward into the light.  (source)
    BANE = a character in the story
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    And when Peter had done so he struck him with the flat of the blade and said, "Rise up, Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane."  (source)
    Bane = a name in the story
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    Lost two thousand years in the past, master of a dead language and a dead empire, the bane and bore of schoolboys, Caesar he believed to be more of a tyrant at Devon than he had ever been in Rome.  (source)
    bane = continuing source of misery or difficulty
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    But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.  (source)
    bane = cause of misery or recurring difficulty
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    Only one thing, I know: you said you were not as good as you should like to be, and that you regretted your own imperfection; — one thing I can comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane.  (source)
    bane = source of trouble or unhappiness
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    Ask your friend Magnus Bane, if you do not believe me.  (source)
    Bane = a character in the story
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    But soon he was betrayed by it to his death; and so it is named in the North Isildur's Bane.  (source)
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    "You missed the road to Bane," said Naab.  (source)
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    He wondered whether it had been Bane who had kicked Firenze in the chest.  (source)
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    Ask your friend Magnus Bane, if you do not believe me.  (source)
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    BANE: I can only tell you what I know ….  (source)
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    'Isildur's Bane is found, you say,' said Boromir.  (source)
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