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baneful

[beyn-fuhl] / ˈbeɪn fəl /


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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




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