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All along   /ɔl əlˈɔŋ/   Listen
adverb
All  adv.  
1.
Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Note: In the ancient phrases, all too dear, all too much, all so long, etc., this word retains its appropriate sense or becomes intensive.
2.
Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) (Obs. or Poet.) "All as his straying flock he fed." "A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined."
All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether. But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all (as it does in "all forlorn," and similar expressions), and the to properly belongs to the following word, being a kind of intensive prefix (orig. meaning asunder and answering to the LG. ter-, HG. zer-). It is frequently to be met with in old books, used without the all. Thus Wyclif says, "The vail of the temple was to rent:" and of Judas, "He was hanged and to-burst the middle:" i. e., burst in two, or asunder.
All along. See under Along.
All and some, individually and collectively, one and all. (Obs.) "Displeased all and some."
All but.
(a)
Scarcely; not even. (Obs.)
(b)
Almost; nearly. "The fine arts were all but proscribed."
All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. (Low)
All one, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same thing.
All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. (Colloq.)
All the better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference.
All the same, nevertheless. "There they (certain phenomena) remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not." "But Rugby is a very nice place all the same." See also under All, n.


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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... said Rose, after a palpable silence, but evenly enough, "who has thought all along that she was attracting a man by her intelligence and her understanding, and all that, wakes up to find that she's been married for her long eyelashes, and her nice voice—and her pretty ankles. That's a little hard on her, don't you think, if ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... looked like a garden full of gaudy flowers. All along the stretch of yellow sand, from the pier as far as the Roches Noires, sunshades of every hue, hats of every shape, dresses of every color, in groups outside the bathing huts, in long rows by the margin of the waves, or scattered ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant
... to go through that time again for a good deal if I could help it. We could hear the shrieks and cries of the old men, women, and children as the cruel pirates caught them and cut off their heads, and we could see the flames burst out from the houses all along the banks of the river. We were afraid that the light would be thrown upon our boat, so that we dare not venture down the river, but pulled up along the southern bank close under the bushes. We thought that we were safe, at all events, ...
— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston
... man who, when you canvass him at an English borough election, says, 'Why, sir, I voted Red all my life, and I never got anything by it: this time I intend to vote Blue,'—addresses you in Canada with 'I have been all along one of the steadiest supporters of the British Government, but really, if claims such as mine are not more thought of, I shall begin to consider whether other institutions are not preferable to ours.' What to do under these circumstances of anxiety ...
— Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin • James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
... city, it was hard for the people from Nazareth to get through the narrow streets. All along the streets they saw shops. Some of the shopkeepers were selling goods that had been brought down from Galilee—fish and oil and wine and fruit. Besides the merchants there were shoemakers, butchers, carpenters, tailors. ...
— The King Nobody Wanted • Norman F. Langford


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