at hand

The near-at-hand field and pasture that sloped toward it were gemmed with dew.

The argentic plate is always ready-at-hand, and the working of it is simplicity itself.

I had ransacked the far-off, and had neglected the near-at-hand, as we are so apt to do.

In support of this proposition volumes might be written; but only a brief array of near-at-hand evidence will be here presented.

I was not in the least cast down at this long-range estimate, since I had become quite used to close-at-hand ridicule.