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At hand   /æt hænd/   Listen
At hand

adjective
1.
Close in space; within reach.  Synonym: close at hand.
2.
Close in time; about to occur.  Synonyms: close at hand, imminent, impendent, impending.  "Some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand" , "In imminent danger" , "His impending retirement"



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"At hand" Quotes from Famous Books



... could not be used had gone to storage, that it was necessary to say farewell to this Hyde Park domicile. Jennie had visited Sandwood in company with Lester several times. He had carefully examined the character of the place. He was satisfied that it was nice but lonely. Spring was at hand, the flowers would be something. She was going to keep a gardener and man of all work. Vesta would be ...
— Jennie Gerhardt - A Novel • Theodore Dreiser

... Some of you may think that the N.A. way is the simplest. It is given in the N.A., and in an examination it would be permissible for you to use the N.A. as a guide because, in an examination, I propose to let you have at hand the same books you would have in the chart house of a ship. On the other hand, the method given in the N.A. is not as clear to my mind as the method which starts with L.M.T., then finds with the Longitude the G.M.T. That gives you, roughly speaking, the distance in time ...
— Lectures in Navigation • Ernest Gallaudet Draper

... accursed ministers of this system for the pain, torture, and misery which they had been instrumental in inflicting on their countrymen for the gratification of their avarice, filthy passions, and pride; the new Mahometans were at hand - Arab, Persian, and Afghan, with the glittering scimitar upraised, full of zeal for the glory and adoration of the one high God, and the relentless persecutors of the idol-worshippers. Already, in the four hundred and twenty-sixth year of the Hegeira, we read of the destruction of the great ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow

... spent so many hours in reading that holy and blessed book? No; for the promises of mercy and salvation which it held out to her was her only support through many hours of pain and suffering, when death seemed near, and eternity close at hand. Though too ill to read, or even to listen to the words of life, she could remember many of them in her heart, and think of them to her comfort in this season of trial. Sometimes she was able to talk to her mother for a few minutes, when it ...
— Aunt Harding's Keepsakes - The Two Bibles • Anonymous

... at hand. He is born, the man of sin, the son of perdition, the wicked man, the beast from out the abyss, the abomination of desolation. He comes from the tribe of Dan, of which it is written: 'Dan shall be a serpent in the way, an adder ...
— The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - 1909 • Anatole France


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