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

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

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

In some way one associates one's day dreams with the lake and falls into thinking that there is something unfinished, sterile about living with no lake at one's elbow.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben

Bruhl is not now in an unprepared state:—here are Uhlans at one's elbow looking on.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas