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Sword of Damocles James Espinosa MD	The therapist who had been treating Damocles’ wife for anxiety in the final months before the tragic and bloody event Swore that it was...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
A DAY OF PHILOSOPHISING Norbert Tasev	t, and let no man wield over my head the sword of Damocles with his arbitrary...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
AGE-PICTURE IN 2010 Norbert Tasev	unite in complete order, the eternal law of Damocles: according to the atomic vibration of the Universe, point to the life of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Corazón lejano Joel Santana Galindo	Del filo de la espada de Damocles que enseña que todo es pasajero ahí donde se sienten abominables perdidas de lo...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
PESSIMISTIC OPTIMISM Norbert Tasev	I can rely on my parents' careful foresight until Damocles' fate, as the disgraced elect, takes pity on me and rewards my still pusillanimous...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
REMEMBER FOR SEPTEMBER Norbert Tasev	in mercy, and that it could meet my heart as a Damocles...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. Interlude VI. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	That, like the sword of Damocles, Above his head hung blank and bare, Suspended by a single hair, So that he could not sit at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. Interlude VII. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Force of Argument William Schwenck Gilbert	With a sweep of a Damocles sword The web of intention is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
THE FRIEND JP.	Cleaved by the thrust of a Damocles...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
THE JAWS OF WEAKNESS Norbert Tasev	of the fate of men of good intentions, if the Damocles' thread of truth is...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
THE TRACKS OF PERMANENT Norbert Tasev	A pre-planned and Damocles ominous strategy: Death forces its mobile puppets into a chess...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Written for my Son ... upon his Master's First Bringing in a Rod Mary Barber	Not Damocles, with greater dread, Beheld the weapon o'er his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
YOUR SENTIENT PHONENDOSCOPE-SELF Norbert Tasev	million times the merciful and gracious fate of Damocles, that he conjured into my bumpy path one who, even in silence, sees the eclipses of my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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