XI In the deepest pot of Clyde-water It’s there they flang him in, And put a turf on his breast-bane To hold Young Hunting down.
For anes I slew his sister’s son, And on his breist bane brak a trie.
XVIII Then some bade gie him beef and fish, And some but bane and fin, And some bade gie him naething at a’, But let the palmer gang.
He and all his sons must avoid whiskey, that bane of the backwoods, as they would avoid the rattlesnake, which sometimes comes across their path.
However, that cruelty of his was his own bane in the end, as will be seen.
Monopolies and perpetual succession are the bane of republics.
It is known, sir, that ambition for office is the bane of free States, and the contentions of rivals the destruction of their country.
As the expeller of hard money, small notes were the bane and curse of a country.
Constipation is the bane of artificially reared children and if the sagacity of mother or nurse does not correct the evil it often causes serious complications.
They are the bane of good housewives and thrifty farmers, and odious in the eyes of country justices; but, like all other vagabond beings, they have something to commend them to the fancy.
In this he is doubtless encouraged by his mother, who is continually reminding him of what he owes to his family; for this same family pride seems doomed to be the eternalbane of lovers.
Thou hast much evil done to them, and now thou must the harm receive; thou hast on both sides bane that to thee shall seem; for now thy foes are before thee, and thy enemies behind.
He is our lord, we are his warriors; he ordered us to say sooth to thyself, if thou wilt not back march, thy bane he will be.
For thus Hera devised it, that Aeaean Medea might come to Ioleus for a bane to Pelias, forsaking her native land.
Here the Sirens inhabited, who are represented, as the bane of all, who navigated those seas.
Married while a child to the Due de Berri, by her passionate temper and her levities she was the bane of her husband's life.
Also, the wind that sweeps continually over our hills, for instance, dries up the rubbish pile—unless it be actually raining; we seldom get that dank sodden stuff that is the bane of the town gardener.
Then Loki said to Hreidmar: "Thou and thy son Are naught fated to thrive, The bane it shall be of you both.
And in his wrath Andvari cursed the gold and the ring and declared that they should be the bane of every man who should thereafter own them.
An ill-starred past: one that had left its bane on his after life, and whose consequences had clung to him.
It is true thus side by side were the bane and the antidote; but when did youth, flushed with wine and pleasure, pause on the road to ruin?
The public would then have thebane and the antidote side by side.
It eliminates that bane of over-seas administration, red tape, and it puts the task of empire-building squarely up to the business man who is the best qualified for the work.
The bane of traffic is the sand-bar, which on account of the swift currents everywhere, is an eternally changing quantity.
No, they bane pay me wale; but I no like being fired.
I bane tell them I skall not know," responded Tam.
If you'd been round by stable and what I bane tale you.
Dey all bane ready, Maister Cassell," rejoined the slow, drawling voice of the Norwegian Tam.
Ay bane work any time skol be," spoke the Norwegian, and a puzzled expression flitted over his face as both Cassells broke into what was to him an inexplicable fit of laughter at his words.
No, I no bane fired; they bane tell me no want me more.
I say that you and your father bane by stable this evening.
Whatever might have been the plans of the Assistant Commissioner they had nothing to do with that desk work, which was the bane of his existence because of its confined nature and apparent lack of reality.
Outsiders are the bane of the police as of other professions.
The loss by fire, thebane of American forests, as far as loss in material is concerned probably does not exceed 2 or 3 per cent.
These rights of user are still the bane of the forest administration.
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and a mortal bane to all the body.
Levity of behaviour is thebane of all that is good and virtuous.
Praise is indeed the consequence and encouragement of virtue; but it is sometimes so unseasonably applied as to become its bane and corruption too.
Study is the bane of boyhood, the element of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age.
This woman, whom the wilderness spewed up To be a bane to thee and all good men, Her that hath wrought the crimes men lay to thee, Her do I banish forth from out this land And all its borders.
Accurst and monstrous children, bane and curse Of your poor mother, image of your sire!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
