He it is who planted the seeds of evils which sprang up afterward: he it is who has proved the common bane not only of us, but also of practically the whole world, as, indeed, Heaven rather plainly indicated.

The woman would have returned to her own people, being far gone with child, but the drink worked her bane.

In a few days Leroy and his wife started North, but before they reached Vicksburg they were met by the intelligence that the yellow fever was spreading in the Delta, and that pestilence was breathing its bane upon the morning air and distilling its poison upon the midnight dews.

"The bane of all Creole art-effort"(we take up the apothecary's words at a point where Clotilde was leaning forward and slightly frowning in an honest attempt to comprehend his condensed English)"the bane of all Creole art-effort, so far as I have seen it, is amateurism.

For as the dog 330 (Whose fatal bite conveyed the infectious bane)

The love which me so cruelly tormenteth So pleasing is in my extreamest paine, That, all the more my sorrow it augmenteth, The more I love and doe embrace my bane.

At every turn he encountered this bane of the country which was called callomy-jallopy, and at that moment he was utterly worn out, body and soul, by a struggle to save the life of a man who had ignorantly poisoned himself by drinking some acid after taking the dose.

no love escapes the mocker's bane.

But I ha' just been speerin the forester aboot the tod (fox), an' he gars me gang owr the muir to Ettric Forest, an' leuk in a cleuch in a rock there is there, an' I shall find the half-peckit banes o' a joop o' mine that stray'd yestreen.

be gold the tempting bane, "The curse that desolates thy hostile plain; "May pleasure tinge with venom'd drops the bowl, 180 "And luxury unnerve the sick'ning soul.

Thus I have heard of a grave-digger pointing out a large human bone to a lady who was looking at his work, of digging a grave, and asking her"D'ye ken wha's bane that is, mem?that's Jenny Fraser's hench-bane;" adding with a serious aspect"a weel-baned family thae Frasers.

I askbut all is dark between! They met me in a genial hour, When universal nature breathed 15 As with the breath of one sweet flower, A time to overrule the power Of discontent, and check the birth Of thoughts with better thoughts at strife, The most familiar bane of life 20 Since parting Innocence bequeathed Mortality to Earth!

She felt herself saying over to herself the words of the old north-country dirge, which came to her recollection she knew not how If hosen and shoon thou gavest nane, The whins shall prick thee intil the bane.

"Eh, if I could win at him, I wud rax the banes o' him.

He hes bene fourtene feet of hycht with square membris effering thairto VI zeris," continues he, "afore the cumyng of this werk to lycht we saw his hanche-bane, als mekill as the hail bane of ane man, lor we schot our arme in the mouth thairof.

"An' if I had sic a sarkfu' o' sair banes wi ae feather," he argued, "what like maun it be wi' a hale bed?"

All dis slew bane some day dry for plow.

The antidote survives the bane.

which makes men love theyr bane, And thinck they dy with pleasure, live with payne.

[Sidenote: Chattering hopes the bane of the sick.] "Chattering Hopes" may seem an odd heading.

Already, I am assured, a marked improvement has taken place among them; and I, for one, heartily bid God-speed to the enterprise: to any enterprise, indeed, which tends to divert labour and capital from that exclusive sugar-growing which has been most injurious, I verily believe the bane, of the West Indies.