They're a pair of harpies, each holding over me the Damocles sword of an arrest for bigamy.

He threatened to have me arrested for bigamy.

Of this however I knew nothing, till one day, while I was at the hotel, I was suddenly arrested for bigamy.

Armed with this knowledge, Miss Heald hurried off to the authorities, and, having "laid an information," had Lola Montez arrested for bigamy.