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bane as in:  bane of my existence

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    Thy counsels all I utterly condemn; Who, 'mid the close and clamour of the fight, Wouldst have us launch our ships, and give the foe, Already too triumphant, cause renew'd For boasting; then were death our certain lot; For, if the ships he launch'd, not long will Greeks Sustain the war, but with reverted eyes Shrink from the fight; to such pernicious end Would lead thy baneful counsels, mighty chief.  (source)
    baneful = something that causes misery
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    Not a simple gift, pure gold and shining; instead, something ancient and possibly baneful, like an iron charm rusting among old bones.†  (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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    In his Farewell Address, Washington had warned against "the baneful effects of the spirit of party."†  (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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    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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    The shadow of that baneful trial hovered over her, and he came to sense a strange terror in her.†  (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    He didn't cure Alec; that was Magnus Bane.  (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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    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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    I heard that he had been mistaken for a spy at Lund and had fled toward Bane.  (source)
    Bane = a character in the story
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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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    He spoke the word as if it were the bane of his existence.†  (source)
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    "—because that prophecy called it the giants' bane," the coach continued.†  (source)
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    "So they will not love," the old man answered, "for love is the bane of honor, the death of duty."†  (source)
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    We'd reached the juncture of the hallway where I had to turn for algebra and Boris had to turn for American Government: the bane of his existence.†  (source)
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