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
It is at times like this that one wants a good man at one's elbow.
From Long Live the King by Boothby, Guy
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)
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
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
