Crossword-Solution: DAMOCLES 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Like Damocles at his celebrated banquet, Rebecca perpetually beheld, amid that gorgeous display, the sword which was suspended over the heads of her people by a single hair.

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? The expenses of seizure will be much less, it is said; but will the interest on the borrowed capital be less exorbitant? For, after all, it is interest which impoverishes the peasant and leads to his expropriation.

The revolution hangs imminent; we sit, at this council board, below the sword of Damocles.’ ‘We must then lay our heads together,’ said the Prince, ‘and devise some honourable means of safety.’ Up to this moment, since the first note of opposition fell from the librarian, Seraphina had uttered about twenty words.

Here Was Arthur’s sword Excalibar, and that of the Cid Campeader, and the sword of Brutus rusted with Caesar’s blood and his own, and the sword of Joan of Arc, and that of Horatius, and that with which Virginius slew his daughter, and the one which Dionysius suspended over the head of Damocles.

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.