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
Well, honest Tommaso, it is a happiness to have a mariner as skilful as yourself, in these troublesome times, at one's elbow!
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore
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)
It’s a jolly lucky thing, I reckon, to find a man like Thornhill at one’s elbow in a place like this.
From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Mitford, Bertram
But the fact that the men were unable to speak any language we understood prevented it from becoming irksome, and one was soon able to become nearly oblivious of the clanking sword at one's elbow.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa
