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)
True, we're told that we'll have to give account Some Day for every idle word, but recording angels seem more sympathetic than a sneering ghost at one's elbow.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy
It seemed impossible that the earth could ever have been green and warm and sunny, and that Death was not always sitting at one's elbow.
From The Hosts of the Air by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
It was another matter to be blind and to play at seeing, with a clever woman like the Princess at one's elbow, ready to detect the slightest hesitation.
From In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
