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It's quite intense to concentrate for that long, staring at elbows and waiting for fouls.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2021

“I was out at elbows, with empty pockets, and a sword which peered through the sheath.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2021

The key piece: An abrasion- and wind-resistant black leather motorcycle jacket with box-quilting detail and removable armor at elbows, shoulders and back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2015

Purity was the word that summed up the show, which opened with dresses falling in pleats, as if on a Grecian column, the cloth tinted pink gold and with gilded bracelets at elbows and wrists.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2012

I fear you are out at elbows; but we must see to that for auld lang syne, as once we sang at suppers.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson


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