at one's elbow

Example Sentences

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He knows to a nicety how many millions or billions of dollars one needs at one's elbow to annihilate this or that bugaboo of deflation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Steal—not I," cried the Fool; "not likely, and the Montfa�on gibbet at one's elbow yonder, with the crows a-swirling and pecking about it as in the time of naughty Clerk Francis.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Though she suspected that he was laughing at her, it was in a land where both the spirits which loved one and hated one were believed to be always at one's elbow.

From The Way of the Gods by Long, John Luther

One heard him as though he spoke at one's elbow.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

That was going one further than Jones' imaginary desk with the telephone at one's elbow, but the imagination is fertile territory.

From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.