baneful
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Baneful it is like to be; since not only has he control of the mother’s conduct, but through that may also blight the happiness of the daughter.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne
Baneful customs, and cold indifferentism grow up in a soil that is watered by no living and unselfish love.
From Humanity in the City by Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)
Come, let us rise: the shade is wont to be Baneful to singers; baneful is the shade Cast by the juniper, crops sicken too In shade.
From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil
Baneful it is like to be; since not only has he control of the mother's conduct, but through that may also blight the happiness of the daughter.
From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne
Vocabulary lists containing baneful
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 1
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