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Along

adverb

With a forward motion. Synonym: on. "The horse trotted along at a steady pace" , "The circus traveled on to the next city" , "Move along" , "March on"

In accompaniment or as a companion. "I brought my camera along" , "Working along with his father"

To a more advanced state. "Well along in their research" , "Hurrying their education along" , "Getting along in years"

In addition (usually followed by 'with'). "Along with the package came a bill" , "Consider the advantages along with the disadvantages"

In line with a length or direction (often followed by 'by' or 'beside'). "Ran along beside me" , "Cottages along by the river"

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"Along" Quotes from Famous Books

... going thence,—which I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one,—you may take him at your pleasure: I will be near to second your attempt, and he shall fall between us. Come, stand not amazed at it, but go along with me; I will show you such a necessity in his death that you shall think yourself bound to put it on him. It is now high supper-time, and the night grows ...

— Othello, the Moor of Venice • William Shakespeare

... an agreeable guide to whatever of interest occurs along the entire course of the river. In short, it is a pleasant, well-written, and very handsome book on the pleasantest river an author could have to write ...

— The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition • Anonymous

... quaint, clean, bare little chamber with a balconied window that looks over the Noah's Arks and the fishing-smacks and fisherfolk, away out to sea. This morning as I lay in bed I saw our Channel fleet lie along the ...

— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke

... elms that met in a low arch above the street had an illusive symmetry in the perspective; they were really set at uneven intervals, and in a line that wavered capriciously in and out. The street itself lounged and curved along, widening and contracting like a river, and then suddenly lost itself over the brow of an upland which formed a natural boundary of the village. Beyond this was South Hatboro', a group of cottages built by city people who had lately come in—idlers and invalids, ...

— Annie Kilburn - A Novel • W. D. Howells

... governing the centrifugal force are the exact counterpart of the laws governing the centripetal force. A comparison of the two will prove this. From Arts. 20, 21, and 22 we have seen that the centripetal force is exerted along the straight lines joining the attracting bodies, that the intensity of the attracting body is inversely as the square of the distance, while the total force is proportionate to the product of ...

— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper

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