| 1. | Theories are the bane of this type. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 2. | Spreading thir bane the blasted Starrs lookt wan. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | The bane of men, abhorr'd Chimaera bre. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | Shall be their father's bail and bane to thos. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | Rush'd from the skies, the bane of her and Troy.. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 7. | 'Twill be his death 'twill be his bane he cannot bea. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 9. | Stephen withstood the bane of miscreant eyes glinting stern under wrinkled brows. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |