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
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
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)
Where is the heart of life, if not at one's elbow?
From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel
It is at times like this that one wants a good man at one's elbow.
From Long Live the King by Boothby, Guy
