Example Sentences

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I saw Tom stareing at him banefully, but I took no notice, merely getting out and kicking the tires to see if air enough in them.

From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Carlyle's fanatical adoption of intuitionalism has told banefully upon his work in sociology.

From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Macpherson, Hector Carsewell

So Slim learned to play the banjo under pressure and picked banefully away while the rest whirled about on the floor.

From The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

His face was red with anger, and his little black eyes glared at her banefully.

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John

His resolution and strong powers of initiative, which had worked so banefully in one direction, grew most beneficent when turned to pacific account.

From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)