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Along   /əlˈɔŋ/   Listen
preposition
Along  prep.  By the length of, as distinguished from across. "Along the lowly lands." "The kine... went along the highway."



Along  prep.  (Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.)
Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. (Obs. or Low. Eng.) "On me is not along thin evil fare." "And all this is long of you." "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners."



adverb
Along  adv.  
1.
By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. "Some laid along... on spokes of wheels are hung."
2.
In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward. "We will go along by the king's highway." "He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along."
3.
In company; together. "He to England shall along with you."
All along, all through the course of; during the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper."
To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I."






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"Along" Quotes from Famous Books



... freedom; but the good work will not stop here. It must proceed. What God and nature decree rebellion cannot arrest. And as the whole wide-spreading tyranny begins to tumble, then, above the din of battle, sounding from the sea and echoing along the land, above even the exaltations of victory on well-fought fields, will ascend voices of gladness and benediction, swelling from generous hearts wherever civilization bears sway, to commemorate a sacred triumph whose trophies, instead ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... where others found accommodation in the town itself. Among these were most of the knights who had already appeared in the tournament, or who proposed to fight there the ensuing day, and who, as they rode slowly along, talking over the events of the day, were greeted with loud shouts by the populace. The same acclamations were bestowed upon Prince John, although he was indebted for them rather to the splendour of his appearance and train, than to the popularity ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... greater facility and pleasure. He stated that the first trial-trip, after the completion of the ship, had been made in the night from an obscure point in the State of Maryland, and extended north and northeast, along the Atlantic coast, to New York,—whose glow of light from a great height, like a phosphorescent mist, was plainly distinguishable,—and thence to the neighborhood of Boston, and back to the place of starting; and that a second, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

... opponents were nearly 2,000 out of 6,700; and two strong battalions went almost solid against Redmond. These battalions, along with the Citizens' Army, were destined to alter the course of Irish history. It was specially true of them, but true generally of all the minority who left Redmond, that they were kept together by a resolute and determined group who had a ...
— John Redmond's Last Years • Stephen Gwynn

... eloquence and popularity. Like all who are descending the tide of a revolution, they thought they were able to ascend the stream with equal ease. They did not see that their strength, of which they were so proud, was not in themselves, but in the current which bore them along. Events were about to teach them that there is no opposing passions to which concession has been once made. The strength of a statesman is his power. One concession, how slight soever, to factions, is an irrevocable engagement with them: when once we consent to become their instrument, ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine


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