A new damocles has a sword suspended over the National Capitol, and liberty hangs to the hinges of the Constitution by a hair.
"Psycho-Phone Messages"
Francis Grierson
Zino thinks of the sword of damocles suspended above her fair head, and pities her.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
It was one of his qualities of youth that he could not wait; patience was an utterly unlearned virtue, and this desperate uncertainty, this sitting like damocles under a sword suspended by a hair, was hard to bear.
"The Wooden Horse"
Hugh Walpole