Separated in early years from her parents and sister, her one great friendship had proved only baneful and ensnaring.
He made some commonplace observation upon the baneful effect of the night air at the season.
He was perhaps wanting in firmness of character, and the undue influence exercised over him by unscrupulous ministers, or by the seductions of fairer but no less ambitious votaries of statecraft, led him to make concessions which tarnished the glory of his reign, and were followed by baneful results for the welfare of his empire.