The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms,
Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.

According to them all sorcerers, necromancers and evil-doers were born under the baleful influence of the seventh calendic sign[.]

[…] he went off alone with his family, and, watched by the day's red baleful eye, pumped the pump-car homeward, […]

I learned the speech of birds; now every tree
Screams out to me a baleful prophecy.

Few people cast a more baleful shadow over postwar Britain than Peter Sutcliffe, the “Yorkshire Ripper”, who has died aged 74

In their excellent essay in The Atlantic endorsing disqualification, Luttig and Tribe remind us that the first president, in his 1796 Farewell Address, had foreseen many of the elements of this baleful disaster.

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