bane vs misery

bane

noun
  • A cause of misery or death. 

  • A disease of sheep. 

  • Bone. 

verb
  • To be the bane of. 

  • To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of. 

misery

noun
  • Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. 

  • A bodily ache or pain. 

  • Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. 

  • poverty. 

How often have the words bane and misery occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )