banes

• “Sunday in the parish crutch, if my own ars may be trusted, the clerk called the banes of marridge betwixt Opaniah Lashmeheygo, and”

  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

• ““Come, come, d — n your squeezing, Jack; my banes are a’ sair already with your nonsense I declare.””

  Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund

• “Before the actual day came, a town-crier was sent round the city to proclaim the "banes" or banns. [”

  "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays

• “I lean toward the latter because that terminal point coincides with the onset of disco, one of the greatest ever banes of American culture and music.”

  Midweek Music Moment: I’m still a teenager « A Progressive on the Prairie

• “Not as deadly as some of the "banes" or related nightshades, this is still not a plant to tinker with: it contains a potent cocktail of alkaloids that disrupt the senses.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Elton, Cambridgeshire

• “One of the banes of insomniacs is clock watching -- looking at the clock throughout the night.”

  The Huffington Post: Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Is Intermezzo the Answer to Middle-of-the-Night Insomnia?

• “We know from observation that stupidity is one of the great banes of humanity, killing and empoverishing many many human beings.”

  Bears Kill Colorado Woman Who Fed Them

• “In what is slowly emerging as a leitmotif of Mr. Monti's technocrat government, Mr. Barca is convinced that one of the banes of past efforts in the south was the proliferation of a raft of different schemes, which inevitably end up reducing mutual trust as people suspect each other of having special and different benefits, ranging from individual pension rights to opaque tax-credit schemes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: New Approach for Italy's South

• “And the trend is causing trouble for political pollsters, aluminum-siding salesmen and the other banes of the dinner hour.”

  Snip! Nearly One-Fifth of Homes Have No Landline - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Television is often touted as one of the banes of our culture, but it can also be of great service to the empowerment and uplifting of society.”

  Jason Mannino: Kathy Griffin Speaks Up for Gay Youth

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