Apparently the schoolmaster's ban upon the unauthorized use of translations was establishing the distinction between the English version which might claim to be ranked as literature and that which Johnson later designated as "the clandestine refuge of schoolboys."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
And now that the twenty years are completed, the ban which kept us apart is lifted for ever.
"Doom of the House of Duryea"
Earl Peirce
Landolin avoided being in the same field, or at the same work anywhere, with Thoma; for he felt as though he were under a ban whenever she looked at him: and even when he was not looking at her, he thought he could feel her eyes following every motion he made.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach