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’s a jolly lucky thing, I reckon, to find a man like Thornhill at one’s elbow in a place like this.

From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Mitford, Bertram

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

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)

Nor is it delightful to have Molly for ever at one’s elbow, calling one Mrs Baboon, and my Lady Venus, and such like; but I could have stood that, though I don’t like it.

From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace