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

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

But at one's elbow spreads Cavendish's melon farm.

From Stories of a Western Town by Thanet, Octave

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)

To have a woman always at one's elbow who sighs like the east wind, and weeps like a cataract, as Gabrielle had taken to do of late, was vastly irritating.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis