The forest fire had baneful consequences on the deer population. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : a baneful superstition. ,baneful herbs. From Dictionary.com.
That man Clarke has some kind of baneful influence over her. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of the Dark] Reference
Who through hatred the baneful his soul shall shove into. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The baneful effects of forcing the voice is clearly set forth. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
This baneful habit is general throughout civilized communities. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
The same authority gives Como a scarcely less baneful character. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Tea also reflected the baneful influence of the temperance movement. From Wordnik.com. [At The Table On The Road] Reference
"No doubt it will exert a most baneful influence," bitterly rejoined. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
It is in fact the healing caduceus as well as the baneful thunder-weapon. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Already they had exposed themselves far too much to its baneful influence. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
Yawning gulfs, where the fetid, stagnant waters threw up their baneful odours. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Worry becomes doubly baneful when it is directed towards the "might have been.". From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Hatred also is the centre of a circle, which has a baneful effect on the whole life. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
Before long the government will pass laws on this baneful, shameful, quack advertising. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
Moly, assuring him that it would inevitably counteract the baneful arts of the fell enchantress. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Especially the makers of munitions and armaments are credited with a baneful influence in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
The criticism of the age which gives a better understanding of its needs is good; all other is baneful. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
It looks like intolerance is the new trend, and a more baneful trend for the world's future can hardly be imagined. From Wordnik.com. [The New Religious Intolerance] Reference
The malcontent, the meddler, the demagogue, had injected their baneful innovations into the political life of Columbus. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The cold words mine and thine, the baneful source of lawsuits and animosities among men, were banished from their cells. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
It does not seem probable that one such man as James B. Steedman could have exerted such a powerful and baneful influence over. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
I have never used them personally, but I have only too often observed their baneful influence on individuals of my acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference
Still, the freedom was achieved; the preoccupation, an undoubtedly baneful and retarding one if it had continued, was got rid of. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Tobin, etc. About the fourth day of the election the real excitement commenced, and the baneful system of bribery was resorted to. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Only those who actually suffered the baneful effects of the unrestrained working of those laws can ever realize their full enormity. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
He was glad to observe that for some time M. Violette had interested himself more in him, and had resisted his baneful habit somewhat. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This in itself may not be a serious thing, but if the mechanical injury thus caused opens the way for malignant germs, baneful results may follow. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
But there, the case of oppressed and down-trodden Ireland, bears witness to the baneful effects of geographical partizan government and legislation. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
It is a grave question whether the realistic fiction so much in vogue and published in such quantities is not a baneful text-book on modern society. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
And taking a golden vase filled with baneful oblation, she poured it over the victim, at the same time swinging the torch to and fro above her head, chanting. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
It consisted, according to the oldest literature of the Veda, in a polytheistical worship of the divine, either as the beneficent or the baneful power of nature. From Wordnik.com. [A Comparative View of Religions] Reference
The most deplorable thing in the treatment of the schools by the state is that in some quarters politics with its baneful influence has been allowed to interfere. From Wordnik.com. [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference
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