| 单词 | sword of Damocles |
| 例句 | We know what sword of Damocles hangs over his head—an electric razor for the military school crewcut Mundín would have to get. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The second week of January 1890, Jo writes to her sister, “It’s like a sword of Damocles forever hanging over our heads—I never really have a moment’s peace.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Markus Hinterhäuser, the festival’s artistic director, said in an interview that he felt the “sword of Damocles” hanging over the artists and staff. Opera Goes On in Salzburg, With Lots and Lots of Testing 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The communist storyline hangs in the background like a sword of Damocles, eventually building to a do-or-die moment right before the week's episode is taped, but it does not generate much narrative tension. Jokes aside, Nicole Kidman is commendable in Aaron Sorkin's mostly watchable "Being the Ricardos" 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z That was the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads. Quentin Tarantino Thinks 'True Detective' Is 'Really Boring' and 'Awful' 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. 'Countdown to Zero': A scary documentary about nuclear weaponry 2010-07-29T20:32:00Z A black-suited executive stands beneath a suspended carrot, once a lure, now a sword of Damocles. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z But she called the law amendment the "sword of Damocles" for publishers. William Burroughs' Turkish publishers' obscenity trial postponed 2012-08-02T13:40:43Z Simply, there's no sword of Damocles hanging overhead. ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z However, the law hovers above our heads like the sword of Damocles. London Book Fair: Elif Shafak on Turkey's progress 2013-04-12T15:00:02Z You get the idea: with the sword of Damocles dangling so low it's almost in shot, how will Falling Skies fare? Falling Skies: will you be watching? 2011-07-05T13:31:00Z The tragic message of Oppenheimer and “Oppenheimer” is that humankind has lived under a nuclear sword of Damocles ever since. Column: 'Oppenheimer' is a great movie, but commits these historical blunders 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z They aren't terrorists and the default sword of Damocles still hovers. Democrats make a deal to avoid default disaster — now how will Biden ever learn? 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z The days where Democrats could dangle Proposition 187’s legacy over Republicans, like the sword of Damocles, would be done. Column: Can an anti-immigrant bill turn Florida blue the way Prop. 187 did for California? 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Calling nuclear weapons “the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads,” Geng reiterated that China opposes armed attacks against nuclear power plants and the threat or use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Russia clashes with US over tactical nukes for Belarus 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z And like the sword of Damocles, the debt ceiling deadline hangs ominously over the economy. Wait, layoffs and job growth? What's going on with the economy and is recession still coming? 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z The new party he envisions, however, sounds an awful lot like the old one: Second Amendment, "parental rights," a sword of Damocles held over Big Tech. A prayer before dying: On the Republican Party's terminal illness 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z It's the sword of Damocles hanging over our entire democracy at this point and it's hard to see how that problem can easily be fixed. The Big Lie is here to stay: Republicans plot to overturn elections on every level 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z A sword of Damocles hangs over the de facto prime minister. Op-Ed: Why Haiti can't get the new beginning it needs 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z However, making that decision is like having the sword of Damocles hanging over your head. Laura Coates on ‘Just Pursuit’ and being a Black female federal prosecutor 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Her report — expected any day now — is hanging over Johnson in a manner that the prime minister, who enjoys declaiming in classical Greek, might liken to a sword of Damocles. Will serial partying amid pandemic prove the one scandal Boris Johnson can't survive? 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z “A sword of Damocles,” as the International Finance Review described it. Transfer Rumors From Another World 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Anti-terrorism laws and hefty fines by the Radio and Television Supreme Council hang over the media like a sword of Damocles. Opinion | Why Fox TV gives me hope for democracy — in Turkey 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The left wants to prey on justices’ instincts to protect their institution by having “court reform” hang over them like a sword of Damocles. Opinion | Mitch McConnell: Democrats, leave the Supreme Court alone 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “If we don’t get clarity from the Treasury Department or the courts, West Virginia will have a sword of Damocles hanging over its head for the foreseeable future,” Mr. Morrisey said. Unintended consequences: Dems rush to fix mistakes in relief package 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z According to Kassie Siegel, director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute, "Those permits hang over us like a sword of Damocles." Gavin Newsom and Big Oil: It’s complicated 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “This sword of Damocles affected our investigative decisions, leading us at certain times to act less forcefully and more defensively than we might have,” Weissmann writes. Mueller prosecutor says special counsel ‘could have done more’ to hold Trump accountable 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z A Chinese official said Wednesday that the law was meant to hang over would-be troublemakers like the sword of Damocles. Hong Kong, Changed Overnight, Navigates Its New Reality 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z “Iran will hold a sword of Damocles over the economic stability of the Middle East, endangering nations like Russia and China that rely on stable energy prices,” he said. US urges allies to maintain UN embargo on arms sales to Iran 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z But we all have the sword of Damocles over our heads. What Jim Carrey realized when he thought he had 10 minutes to live 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Maybe the stress of living “like this” — with a sword of Damocles dangling overhead — accounts for the steady escalation in my drinking. Raising a Glass to Chronic Disease 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The “so far” in there, of course, hung online as a kind of sword of Damocles waiting to fall. How Trump’s Relationship With Barr Got So Complicated 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s a sword of Damocles hanging over anyone who owns a piece of the power grid. Would a California takeover of PG&E make energy cheaper and safer? Maybe not 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Those who did not initially perish in the blast live with a toxic sword of Damocles over their heads. 'Bhopal’s tragedy has not stopped': the urban disaster still claiming lives 35 years on 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Like the proverbial sword of Damocles, it might not fall, said Tu. China weighs options as Trump backs Hong Kong legislation 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z That looming deadline and uncertainty about what, exactly, will happen after 2047 weigh like a sword of Damocles in the minds of many people in Hong Kong. Friends say ticking clock drove wounded Hong Kong protester 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z That looming deadline and uncertainty about what, exactly, will happen after 2047 weigh like a sword of Damocles in the minds of many people in Hong Kong. Friends say ticking clock drove wounded Hong Kong protester 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “I felt I had the sword of Damocles hanging over my head,” Lewinsky told him. Plato Cacheris, Washington ‘Super Lawyer’ in Headline Cases, Dies at 90 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The sword of Damocles hanging over horse racing appears no idle threat. 'The sport is at a tipping point': Inside US horse racing’s deadly crisis 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z “As long as tariffs are a possibility, it’s a shadow over the trading relationship. It’s a sword of Damocles hanging over cross-border trade.” On Mexico border, Republican business owners oppose Trump's tariff... 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z “The sword of Damocles continues to hang over Bayer,” Bryan Garnier analyst Jean-Jacques Le Fur said. Bayer reaps profit lift from Monsanto seeds, consumer health 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z “But I think everyone’s still a little tenuous because we’ve got a sword of Damocles hanging over us three weeks from now to see if we can get things worked out.” With Deadline Looming, Border Security Talks Face Hurdles in Congress 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Individuals implanted with it live under a sword of Damocles: They risk electrocution and possible death if they leave the Sprint Fidelis alone — and they risk death if their heart stops and the product fails. Perspective | The FDA is still letting doctors implant untested devices into our bodies 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Then thoughts of impending karmic justice, which hang over the accidental killer’s head like the sword of Damocles – at every moment, even when you’re laughing at parties. What happens to your life after you accidentally kill someone? 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Barbara now tipped the castor so that it was poised vertically over Widmerpool’s head, holding it there like the sword of Damocles above the tyrant. How Anthony Powell Wrote His Twelve-Volume Masterpiece 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z “The sword of Damocles is hanging over our heads,” he said. Nepal’s Solution to More Rape Cases? Ban Pornography 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z In December, Daniel Jorjani, the department’s principal deputy solicitor, wrote that the current set-up “hangs the sword of Damocles over a host of otherwise lawful and productive actions” and should be reversed. Trump administration poses new threat to birds in allowing ‘incidental’ killings 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z However, he added: “It is the sword of Damocles. Do not be scared. Keep on doing journalism. Let’s keep on doing journalism together.” Turkey: anti-Erdoğan journalists defiant after convictions on terror charges 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z “It's like a sword of Damocles hanging over the town,” says Pascal Lacroix, a geoscientist at the Institute for Earth Science in Grenoble, France. Creeping earth could hold secret to deadly landslides 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Cooking while striving to maintain the Michelin rating, he said, was like “working under the sword of Damocles.” Alain Senderens, world-renowned French chef who fed the less formal gourmand, dies at 77 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z “Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness.” America’s fiscal sword of Damocles 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z “To drop the sword of Damocles now, given the bitter political partisanship surrounding this entire matter, would only serve to further undermine a public trust that is too much damaged already,” he said. How the Impeachment Process Works 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Investigations by the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees mean that “a Russian sword of Damocles hangs over Trump’s head,” Lichtman writes. Review | The case for impeaching President Donald J. Trump. (Too soon?) 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “Markets don’t like uncertainty. The ‘sword of Damocles’ hanging over our collective heads is unsettling, to say the least.” Death by 1,000 cuts: How Republicans can still alter your health coverage 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z He called the prospect of a bypass a “sword of Damocles” hanging over Breezewood. A Pennsylvania Highway Town at the Junction of Politics and Policy 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Another less deadly, yet highly terrifying, fiscal sword of Damocles hovers over young and future generations. America’s fiscal sword of Damocles 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z The law carries a penalty of up to five years in prison, and one person close to Turkish finance said it long hung like a sword of Damocles over the industry. Turkey’s Crackdown Sweeps Through Business and Finance, Imperiling the Economy 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The risk now is that politics, economics and finance are combining in a way that threatens to throw globalization in reverse, hanging a sword of Damocles over the world economy. Risk of Deglobalization Hangs Over World Economy 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z “That failure of accountability, which has persisted for years, hangs over the Nigerian government as a sword of Damocles.” Nigeria, Battling Boko Haram, Detains Some of Its Victims 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But many for-profits may not be able to obtain a letter of credit while under the government’s sword of Damocles. Obama’s Student Loan Writeoff 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The code is the asylum seeker’s sword of Damocles: BVE holders are acutely aware of its conditions and the breadth with which they can be interpreted. 'We are the forgotten people': the anguish of Australia's 'invisible' asylum seekers 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z For half a century, climate scientists have seen the West Antarctic ice sheet, a remnant of the last ice age, as a sword of Damocles hanging over human civilization. Climate Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z "War is the sword of Damocles that still hangs over mankind," Xi said in a speech at Tiananmen Square commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific. China's troop-cut plan is more about modernization than peace, analysts say 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z War is the sword of Damocles that still hangs over mankind. China's Military Parade Celebrates World War II Victory 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z But in every sense, the couple's honeymoon is over, with a financial sword of Damocles looming over their country. Honeymoon is over for penniless Greek couple in NYC, begging after bank cards were declined 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z "This will hang like the sword of Damocles for the rest of his life." Kyle Neil: Wesley Vance in court charged with murder 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z As one official put it, the government plans to “hang the sword of Damocles” over the state-owned sector’s head. China's Fragile Evolution 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z "They don't feel like a sword of Damocles is hanging over them." California Legislature hits a lull 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z “Iran is well aware that the sword of Damocles hangs over its head,” he said. Administration and lawmakers clash over Iran policy 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The “Jewish question,” as Herzl famously formulated it in his revolutionary Zionist manifesto, “The Jewish State,” hung in the European air like the sword of Damocles. Book review: ‘Israel: Is It Good for the Jews?’ by Richard Cohen Banzhaf said his filings “hang like a sword of Damocles over the stations.” GWU professor who beat tobacco industry uses FCC to pressure Redskins over name Harris said: "It was like the sword of Damocles hanging over me. I was waiting each weekend for a newspaper article destroying me." Rolf Harris admits sexual contact with 18-year-old friend of daughter 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z He said: "It was like the sword of Damocles hanging over me. I was waiting each weekend for a newspaper article destroying me." Rolf Harris tells court: I betrayed everybody 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Dr Bousted expressed concern that the "Ofsted sword of Damocles" hung over any senior leader "foolish enough" to think they would be given sufficient time to turn around schools with problems. New teachers 'can't risk mortgages' 2014-04-16T13:14:29Z Nicholas Spiro, managing director at Spiro Sovereign Strategy consultants in London, said the court's rulings "hang over Portugal's reform program like a sword of Damocles". Portugal set to pass budget amid protests; court challenges loom 2013-11-26T12:08:51Z “It is a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads,” he said. News Analysis: What Mideast Crisis? Israelis Have Moved On 2013-05-25T19:42:18Z The spectre of mass public sector layoffs also hangs like the sword of Damocles. Greek finance minister: 'we are out of the woods' 2013-03-11T18:53:31Z Still, only the most tedious nazi finds it easy to complete chores without some kind of sword of Damocles hanging over them. Two apps that will transform your life 2013-03-10T19:59:01Z No federal benefits, no vote, but no sword of Damocles either. Op-Ed Columnist: Selling Amnesty 2013-02-04T03:18:17Z “If the sword of Damocles is hanging over our intelligence officers, they can’t do their job.” Drone Strike Lawsuit Raises Concerns on Intelligence Sharing 2013-01-31T01:25:47Z Needless to say, this sword of Damocles scenario frayed everyone's nerves. 5 Customers You Should Fire 2013-01-16T14:14:35Z Eventually, there is a sword of Damocles that hangs over them. Mr. Dodd Goes to Hollywood 2012-11-15T11:00:01Z “It was like the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads,” said Mr. Rosenblatt, a media technology consultant, “and for several years, avoidance and denial worked well for us.” In New York, the Upstairs, Downstairs, Sideways Move 2012-10-28T04:57:18Z "The new powers are the sword of Damocles," he said. Transformed by Greece, Eurostat bares its teeth 2012-10-16T07:03:39Z While this sword of Damocles was suspended over his head he was bound in honour to be silent. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z It's a grisly thought, isn't it, that we all have been walking calmly about all this summer with such a sword of Damocles over our heads. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z But the whole hung over the head of the Catholic, like the sword of Damocles, ready to drop at the breath of any persecuting zealot or malicious informer. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z “It was a sword of Damocles hanging over my head,” he said. Artist Still Fighting Alabama Over Football Paintings 2012-01-31T01:55:57Z The whole purpose of that threatened sword of Damocles is so that it isn’t used.” Republicans Want to ‘Protect’ Wall Street, Levin Says 2011-11-12T10:53:58Z “But that wild card, that sword of Damocles, is going to be what the capital market implications are if there is a major credit event in Europe.” European Turmoil Could Slow U.S. Recovery 2011-11-12T03:15:47Z In the debate over the debt ceiling, Mr. Plouffe said, the White House had little choice but to strike an agreement because “there was a sword of Damocles hanging over the American economy.” Brutal Budget Battle Presses William M. Daley Into Political Combat 2011-10-05T18:07:28Z Denny Rehberg of Montana compared the 1906 Antiquities Act to the mythical sword of Damocles, calling it a weapon that can be used against rural communities at any time without warning. Western lawmakers rail against new national monuments on public lands 2011-09-13T20:40:16Z So Bank of America is a sword of Damocles over the banking system, and looks more and more troubled as time passes. Bank of America death-watch 2011-08-09T22:30:00Z “The agreement on the U.S. debt ceiling itself isn’t that great and the risk that the U.S. may lose its AAA rating is the sword of Damocles hanging over the markets.” European Stocks Drop as U.S. Manufacturing Data Trails Forecasts 2011-08-01T14:30:01Z "The risks to the eurozone are plain to see, starting with the Greek default, which hangs like the sword of Damocles over Europe." Item Club scales back growth forecasts saying UK at 'critical juncture' 2011-07-16T23:07:21Z The final curtain impending inevitably at the end of two hours and a half is the dramatist’s “sword of Damocles.” Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z “You are keeping a man with the sword of Damocles hanging over his head,” said Ram Jethlamani, one of the country’s most prominent criminal defense lawyers. With 1.2 Billion People, India Seeks a Good Hangman 2011-06-13T15:22:46Z I gasped, and the barber paused languidly in his ministrations, holding his razor poised like the sword of Damocles over my head, while he reflected. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z She would hold over him a power he had reason to dread—a very sword of Damocles! The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z There's a sword of Damocles hanging over these people and it's real, not artificial. What happens to deposed leaders? 2011-04-14T10:30:24Z Zino thinks of the sword of Damocles suspended above her fair head, and pities her. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z Sensitive parents have a social sword of Damocles hanging over them. The social battlefield of toddlers in restaurants 2011-02-16T10:47:18Z Health-care companies relying on revenue from Medicare are also under the sword of Damocles. Stocks Likely to Bleed If Congress Slashes Budget: John Dorfman 2011-02-14T00:05:17Z But there’s no help for it, with the ugly thing threatening—hanging over our necks like a very sword of Damocles.” Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z For the past few days the Mohammedan equivalent of the sword of Damocles had hung over his head. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z In one of these small openings there has been inserted a baptismal scene, but because it is upside down the water seems like a cross between a shower-bath and the sword of Damocles! Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The decision regarding the future of Comic-Con's home was a sword of Damocles hanging over its head this summer. Comic-Con staying in San Diego 2010-10-01T05:00:00Z If even that kind of bottom line keeps the sword of Damocles hanging by a thread over Steve Ballmer's head, I might almost find myself feeling a little sorry for the guy. Are the knives out for Microsoft's Steve Ballmer? 2010-07-23T22:45:00Z The Chinese sword hangs by a well-secured rope rather than by a single hair, and the weapon is blunt and smaller than the sword of Damocles in legend might have been. Paper Tiger: China's No Threat to the U.S. 2010-02-26T15:16:00Z And I wonder how many of these people know that she is one of the heroines of the Rattenheimer ruby case, that hangs over our heads like a veritable sword of Damocles the whole time! Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune Her tongue seemed to be hanging above him like the sword of Damocles. The Wonderful Visit But above his head the sword of Damocles hung. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath Now that I had her truculent husband under my thumb, for I held exposure over him like the sword of Damocles, I was free to see as much of her as I chose. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec "With such a sword of Damocles hanging over my head, I am sure I could neither eat nor sleep." Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs And if only I had not this other trouble which hangs over me like the sword of Damocles itself, life would be a very happy thing, indeed. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel The sword of Damocles was for ever hanging over our heads. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 But the sword of Damocles does not fall; in this instance, as in others, mademoiselle departed in safety, bearing Anne away to the woods, her face hidden in the depths of the Shaker. Anne Lee couldn't see the cables but hoped they were strong, for the thing weighed at least a ton and, overhanging him, looked much more ominous than the sword of Damocles. The Brain It is impossible to develop character with any continuity when the supernatural, like some sword of Damocles, hovers continually overhead, ready to descend at any moment and sever cause from effect. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens The revolution hangs imminent; we sit, at this council board, below the sword of Damocles.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) Truly Horncastrians were, at that dread time, living with the sword of Damocles hanging over them. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time But living under that slanting cliff, from which we 21 could not escape, we felt, indeed that the sword of Damocles hung by a spider web above our heads. Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew Instead of their existence becoming etiolated under the weight of domestic duties, and under the sword of Damocles of examinations, they thrive by living as far as possible among the things they ought to learn. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Finally, one morning, he could endure this sword of Damocles no longer. Life in a Tank The days passed very happily with Moumouth, and everything promised a smiling future for him; but, like the sword of Damocles, troubles are ever suspended above the heads of men and of cats. The Story of a Cat Indeed, total eclipse was less appalling, in its finality, than that miserable sword of Damocles which had been hanging over him for months—robbing him of his manhood—poisoning all the springs of life. The Martian But knowing Eisenfeldt for what he is, I had a little sword of Damocles suspended over his thick neck. The Pagan Madonna The Lord Mayor groaned aloud at the very thought of this new terror, which threatened to descend like the sword of Damocles and crush all the joy of his new civic dignity. The Tale of Lal A Fantasy He also turned up his eye, momentarily, to the piece in the air above, as if it might be some disguised sword of Damocles ready to fall upon him. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs The Tripolitan War suspended the sword of Damocles over the Turk's head. World's War Events, Vol. I And thus he lived under the shadow of the sword of Damocles for many months; on and off, for years—indeed, as long as he lived at all. The Martian They were kept as a sword of Damocles, suspended over the heads of the unhappy Romanists, and capable of being brought down on them at any moment. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot The sword of Damocles was suspended for weeks, during which the high-toned censor's condition was sometimes pitiable to see. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Above the head of every editor the law of libel hangs like the sword of Damocles. The History of "Punch" In the end Utah was made a State; the Mormons breathed the freer as ones who had escaped that Edmunds statute which was like a sword of Damocles above their polygamous heads. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite When he looked up, she hung, like the sword of Damocles, by a single fibre of maiden’s hair over his head. The Eagle Cliff The mortgage deed, so long held in menace over the head of Archibald Armstrong—suspended, as it were, by a thread, like the sword of Damocles—is to be put into execution. The Death Shot A Story Retold "The sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, to make them remember." Space Prison The hippopotamus passes close to the forked stick, and touches the cord which sustains it in air like the sword of Damocles. Black Ivory It hangs over the head like the sword of Damocles. Rivers of Ice Yet these seizures served their purpose since they kept the daughter freshly reminded that a sword of Damocles hung over her—and that her father must not be crossed. The Tyranny of Weakness Jeffreys would still believe in the sword of Damocles which hung above him, and the time might come when Raby would cease to stand between him and his Nemesis. A Dog with a Bad Name The trembling culprit wished to free himself at any cost from this sword of Damocles suspended over his head, and he proposed to me two ways to effect the desired end. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania So that was how the man had heard about me, and for some reason found it worth while to follow, waving the sword of Damocles! Everyman's Land He discerned the sword of Damocles that they held over her, the fear of a charge of witchcraft, or of some vile heresy, in which they kept her. The Long Night Lord Bellingham had his agents in the army, as well as Cromwell, and soon discovered that the sword of Damocles was suspended over his head. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel His sister’s death shook him; years are heavy on him; the sword of Damocles has long been hanging over his head. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle It is at Actium, and the fate of nations and generations yet unborn hang, as the sword of Damocles hung, upon the tiny thread of destiny. Violets and Other Tales Suddenly I sprang up from the bench, remembering that, at least, I could escape from Julian, if not from the sword of Damocles. Everyman's Land The authority of the Church is a sword of Damocles held perpetually over his head—until it is removed. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals With this sword of Damocles hanging over his head, and the object of his apprehension being daily brought nearer and yet nearer, Shafto was and looked abjectly miserable. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma For the present she must live with this sword of Damocles hanging over her head, but she hoped the Governors would decide the matter speedily, and put her out of her misery. The Luckiest Girl in the School We suspend the sword of Damocles above his head and demand from him such answers as will fill the measure of our preconceived notions. The Vitalized School Hangs over me night and day like the sword of Damocles! The Riddle of the Frozen Flame To tell her would be to crush it, kill it utterly, the blow of the sword of Damocles falling at last—falling inevitably. Sally Bishop A Romance Over all hung, unseen, the sword of Damocles. The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain That, unfortunately, is still pending, pending, like the sword of Damocles, over our heads, banishing all security for the present or hope for the future. Records of a Girlhood For a number of years this "resolution" hung like the sword of Damocles over the heads of rural Jewry. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) Cicero fled—gazing in cynical disgust at the panic and incompetence, yet with a sword of Damocles, as he believed, hanging over his head also. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Ah, I am scribbling along light-heartedly, when all the time the sword of Damocles is hanging over us both, when my next letter may have to be good-by for always. The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World Certainly the sword of Damocles still dangled over her head, and over the head of Lambert, but a consciousness that they were both innocent, assured her inwardly that it would not fall. Red Money And, over their heads, a warning and a trade mark, that sword of Damocles—marriage. Balloons In the homes of the fighting men fear reigned supreme—ever the sword of Damocles suspended at the hearth. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration The sword of Damocles hanging over his head, to be conjured away by the will of the Devil, perhaps. Là-bas The envied and the envious walked there, and there hung the sword of Damocles and the invisible balances. Sir Mortimer "Do you mean that we are revelling under the sword of Damocles—dancing on the eve of our execution?" Saracinesca The man who knows, who can think, and who can write, holds a sword of Damocles over every politician. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors It is the fear of public opinion that hangs above them like the sword of Damocles. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Up to this period it had been his father's intention to make a priest of him, and the idea hung over the young physicist like a very sword of Damocles. Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency Rose-Marie was hoping to push that day into the background—to make it only a dim uncertainty rather than the sword of Damocles that it was. The Island of Faith Yet they lived with the sword of Damocles over their heads, suspended by a single thread, and the General had the knife wherewith to cut it. True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office The sword of Damocles, which seemed to hang over my head, possessed no terror. Weapons of Mystery Here the ground was stable, not mined in all directions; no arbitrary ukase—veritable sword of Damocles—hung over the head and darkened the sunshine. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People With the nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, it is high time for us to exchange the clouds of fancy and the flowers of rhetoric for the solid ground of historical reality. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History But this sword of Damocles business is beginning to get on my nerves. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Let us remember also that during ail this time there was suspended over his head, from the palace, a sword of Damocles which was liable to fall at any time. Court Life in China The revolution hangs imminent; we sit, at this council board, below the sword of Damocles.’ Prince Otto, a Romance And what advantages are promised by this law as an offset to this sword of Damocles, suspended by a single hair over the head of the unfortunate husbandman? What is Property? Still there was the sword of Damocles over his pineal gland. Wylder's Hand To some natures security hath no charm—the sword of Damocles suspended over their heads adds to their enjoyment of anything. Three Weeks To my mind it hangs over the low, one-storeyed houses at its feet, a veritable sword of Damocles, sooner or later sure to fall with crushing force. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne This something was a small box with a clockwork arrangement and a miniature uplifted hammer that hung like the sword of Damocles over a little copper cap. The Face and the Mask In other words, reprisals and the use of force to exact a severe punishment, as well as the certainty that this sword of Damocles would descend, were essential ingredients. Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance The old sword of Damocles hung over me. Men, Women, and Ghosts The emperor was afraid to banish the most eminent men in his empire; so he tolerated them and hated them,--suspending over their heads the sword of Damocles. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10 European Leaders The sword of Damocles was suspended over his head, and he knew it better than any other man in Europe; he knew it from his spies and emissaries. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers Then like the sword of Damocles the bessemer voice of Pepperill severed the general atmosphere of amiability: "Where did you get that dog?" Tutt and Mr. Tutt And you think that I could endure to live under such a threat, to walk about with the sword of Damocles over my head? At Love's Cost Therefore, he went about his business with a sort of sword of Damocles hanging over his head—and now the heiress had come, and he had saved her life! Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life It hangs over my head like a sword of Damocles I have heard of—though I don't know why it was held over his head! Love's Pilgrimage The sword of Damocles is over me now, I know. The Voice on the Wire For the first time, since the sword of Damocles had fallen, she was alone with her thoughts. I Will Repay He could not wipe out of his brain the conviction that if he waited for Shan Tung he was waiting just so long under the sword of Damocles, with a hair between him and doom. The River's End Gerald went about all day with a tendency to cringe, as if there were the point of a sword of Damocles pricking the nape of his neck. Women in Love Never had he been able to forget that above his head a danger more terrible than the sword of Damocles hung, suspended by a thread, which the slightest accident might break. The Widow Lerouge She smiled, though she felt that the choler of the king, so easily kindled and so cruelly vindictive, ever swung over her head like the sword of Damocles. Henry VIII and His Court Had the sword of Damocles, which she herself had suspended, already fallen over the heads of those who had shown her nothing but kindness? I Will Repay She felt that the spinning-wheel hung over her like the sword of Damocles, ready at the least occasion to fall upon her, and bind her to it. Old Fritz and the New Era "A woe to the traitors who have dared to raise the sword of Damocles over the head of the queen!" cried the baron, furiously. Marie Antoinette and Her Son Have you ever heard of the sword of Damocles? The Puppet Crown "The sword of Damocles must henceforth be brandished over the entire surface." The French Revolution - Volume 3 With supreme skill, she kept this sword of Damocles poised above the Bison's head, and more than once she was actually on the point of really dropping it— for his recalcitrancy grew and grew. Eminent Victorians Well did the great imagination of antiquity feign a torment, too great for the mind long to endure, in the sword of Damocles suspended by a single hair over his head. A Simpleton Remember that you are in a grave and perilous situation, and that justice hangs over you like the sword of Damocles. Marie Antoinette and Her Son If the sword of Damocles were indeed suspended over their heads, it seemed only to heighten the merriment of their little repast. The Zeppelin's Passenger Some farmers were apparently sympathetic, but debarred from entertaining such applications by the sword of Damocles — the 100 Pound fine in Section 5 of the Natives' Land Act — they had perforce to refuse the applicants. Native Life in South Africa Suspending the sword of Damocles over their heads, he left the room. Ursula An alarming circumstance hastened the confession which Minoret was inclined to make to Zelie; the sword of Damocles began to move above their heads. Ursula |
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