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)
It is at times like this that one wants a good man at one's elbow.
From Long Live the King by Boothby, Guy
One can sit in one's library with a telephone at one's elbow, no one comes in without being first announced by the footman, the streets are full of cabs, and all—- DORN.
From The Sea-Gull by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
Nor is it delightful to have Molly for ever at one’s elbow, calling one Mrs Baboon, and my Lady Venus, and such like; but I could have stood that, though I don’t like it.
From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace
