Banes [noun]

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“Any more uncertainty on any level is just the bane of these state agencies’ existence,” Evermore said.

Seems as if K. was beginning to come up against those political forces which have ever been a British Commander's bane.

Love of money was throughout the bane of Loftus, and went far to neutralise the good effects of his learning and eloquence.

He is presumed here to have been killed by Hother, who is therefore called “the bane of Gelder.”

It might be good for hogs, but it was a form of monks' bane, as it were.

Anything with my hands but I bane not much good on head work.

"I only wish I knew some Swedish talk besides 'bane'," she said to herself.

Fair words hurt ne'er a bane, but foul words break mony a ane.

Let none admireThat riches grow in hell: that soil may bestDeserve the precious bane.'