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1 But the great bane of the Portuguese settlements was slavery.
2 His great bane was the popular magazine, the difficulty of selling a good thing.
3 Polygamy exists among most of the tribes, and is the great bane of Indian domestic life.
4 The great bane of the two Massingbirds was, that they had been brought up to be idle men.
5 It is a very unmarketable commodity, as those who have received it truly know to their own great bane and boon.
6 There is no greater bane to friendship than adulation, fawning, and flattery.
7 The habit of inattention must be considered as the greatest bane of the democratic character.
8 Pat became a very worthy man, after abandoning the "critter," which had been his greatest bane .
9 Then truly would the war become lighter to the Trojans, thou being slain; for thou art the greatest bane to them.
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