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    bane


    banes


    1. He looked at me with burning teenage intensity, the bane of every parent


    2. He took some pictures with his camera phone, then crossed the road and entered the narrow little premises that was the bane of Darklow's new debtor classes


    3. Drau’d saw the inner struggle within his eyes; as much as he was honor-bound to attend, Brodin also needed to be with his people, at the war-front where his strength and the power of “Hell’s Bane” counted for more than debating the inevitable at the Council


    4. “You wouldn’t have that problem if you used a hammer, Grandlefist,” Brodin joked, pointing to the crystal brick that was “Hell’s Bane


    5. To be sure, they could kill them – “Hell’s Bane” had seen an end to one of them


    6. With his knuckles whitening on the steel handle -- skeletal hands topped the wall -- “Hell’s Bane” came slamming down


    7. The handle of “Hell’s Bane” was well worn from facing such beings


    8. Drau'd's blood boiled as it had only once before, and at that time many fell before him, crushed by his ancient war hammer -- the unbreakable Hell's Bane


    9. Still, with over a thousand hardened laborers screaming at his back, Drau'd knew he was in for a grizzly fight the instant he lifted Hell's Bane off of a crushed, wolf helm and saw the creature's flesh regenerate almost instantaneously


    10. At the War of Lock Core, Drau'd had faced similar beings, and with the power of Hell's Bane he was able to defeat them, though only by reducing their bodies to mush

    11. Drua'd felt his anger rising once more and suddenly felt compelled to squash something with Hell's Bane


    12. Raising Hell’s Bane in one meaty hand, he pointed it to the Rift


    13. When it’s all you have for over two decades, it becomes more of a comfort than a bane


    14. Former SEAL and panther shifter Chay “Beane” Bane has made a career of rescuing other shifters in difficult situations, secreting them in his vast compound far from the prying eyes of the government


    15. It's the bane of my existence, and the


    16. Each combat stage is ruled by judges, who special laws could be a bane or a boon depending on the situation


    17. The bane of Olympus shows the trail,


    18. The prophecy was clear: The bane of Olympus shows the trail


    19. He was truly a bane of Olympus


    20. “Why do you see wealth as a bane when in reality it is a boon?” said the swamiji

    21. “Let’s not digress into the perilous paths the religions had laid for man to his bane,” said the seer


    22. The fall of these is the bane of today’s world


    23. But, the bane of the modern world of letters is that many are writing though they have no business to write


    24. grandmother’s life – but the bane of his grandfather’s


    25. Of these well-defined core practices, from early on I had been interested in exploring the one that had become the bane of my life, within layers of exquisitely refined personal camouflages—it was called Losing Self-importance


    26. Of these practices, from early on I had been interested in exploring the one that had become the bane of my life, within layers of exquisitely refined personal camouflages—it was called Losing Self-importance


    27. however, was the bane of my existence


    28. lure of those bane seven


    29. the bane of all true love,


    30. THE BANE OF VOLATILITY

    31. stock traders, the bane of volatility is the cause of uncertainty


    32. The bodily noises that accompany the life of any troll—those noises that are at once the bane to the trolls’ social lives and yet their primary delight—had doubled, then trebled, in intensity


    33. Enforcement Commissioner was the bane of every freelance pilot and crop duster


    34. Boon seeking has become the bane of the religious spirit


    35. ‘Isn’t it the bane of being a woman then?’ sighed Roopa


    36. ‘Misplaced zeal for one’s faith and uncalled for bias against the other religions has been the bane of the humans,’ said Raja Rao


    37. Save a Gandhi, even the best of the rest of yore were not averse to their fellow-beings scavenging their latrines; now I wonder why I never thought of it before, maybe, we put up with what we come to grow up with; if not, why don’t the Sikh males find the turban burdensome and the Muslim dames put up with the inhibiting burka? Whatever, the world seems to care two hoots for the plight of the sex-workers as it had been to that of the scavengers, and God knows when it would be wiser to the ills of the unlicensed prostitution, if not AIDS, it’s the VD that’s the return on investment for these pleasure-givers; why, the malady of the flesh-trade is the bane of those who bring in the wares


    38. Well, the penchant of the Musalmans to perceive that Islam is in Danger over issues trivial, not to speak of matters prophetical, is the bane of social harmony in this world


    39. Was it not possible, the hallucinations, if not inventions, of such folks might have made their way into the hadith? Besides, hearsay is the bane of best of the times, and what more proof is needed about the averment than its grip, even on the informed mind, in the transparent age of ours


    40. But the bane of the closed Islamic societies is that there cannot be any contrary view of life than the pro Quran-hadith-sunna dogma, as all the Musalmans share common beliefs and imbibe the same prejudices

    41. That it might rather have been the result of that bane of our profession, news ‘management,’ I hate to even consider, though I must, in all honesty, concede it possible, our leaders being the cowards such usually are


    42. ” she confessed to the curse of the secretly poisoned and the bane of the hyper-hygienic: low immunity, chronic intolerance, and increasing allergies


    43. continue to be the bane of your very existence


    44. ”How could this sport be anything but bane?!”


    45. Legwork is the bane of all policemen and women anywhere in the world


    46. The beautiful bane of his existence sat no more than a foot away


    47. bringing bane to the quadruped abomination


    48. It was lack of any CCTV evidence that was the bane of his existence in this investigation


    49. It was also this selfish and elitist attitude that was drummed into everyone during the boom times, that was now the bane of the individuals that had become the poor and destitute victims of this failed ideology


    50. Remote controls are the bane of a prospective














































    1. He was overcome with thoughts and anxiety, the twin banes of his sleep


    2. Life is not as unkind to the self-introspecting man as it is to a self-reflecting bull for it lends him the scope to contain the damages the vagaries of his habit occasions; but still, save a Gary Sobers, who said he never committed the same mistake twice, man fails to benefit from the let-offs of fate, and that only proves that man is more adept at thwarting the perils without but not at averting the banes within


    3. The schoolgirls saw two others: one, the chaplain, the Abbe Banes, old and ugly, whom they were permitted to contemplate in the choir, through a grating; the other the drawing-master, M


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    Synonyms for "bane"

    bane curse nemesis scourge cancer annoyance calamity evil misfortune plague

    "bane" definitions

    something causing misery or death