injurious

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Being a popular introduction to the study of Entomology, and a treatise on Injurious and Beneficial Insects, with descriptions and accounts of the habits of Insects, their transformations, development and classification.

From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)

Why Rag-Time Is Injurious Do you believe the playing of the modern rag-time piece to be actually hurtful to the student?

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef

Insects Injurious to Vegetation": "The 'frog-hoppers' pass their whole lives on plants, on the stems of which their eggs are laid in the autumn.

From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)

"Injurious fortune," quoth the king, "that to double the father's misery, wrongest the daughter with misfortunes!"

From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey

And when this is said, all is said to his commendation, being otherwise neither good for Church nor State, Soveraign nor Subjects; Covetous, Ambitious, Rebellious, Injurious.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur