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
Where is the heart of life, if not at one's elbow?
From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel
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)
Well, honest Tommaso, it is a happiness to have a mariner as skilful as yourself, in these troublesome times, at one's elbow!
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore
One can sit in one's library with a telephone at one's elbow, no one comes in without being first announced by the footman, the streets are full of cabs, and all—- DORN.
From The Sea-Gull by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
