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ALL ALONG
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
All the time or over a period of time
Example:
the hope had been there all along
Synonyms:
all along; right along
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Context examples:
There was no difficulty about the direction in which I should return for all along I had kept the little brook upon my left, and it opened into the central lake within a stone's-throw of the boulder upon which I had been lying.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So surprised at their coming to town, though it was what she had rather expected all along; so angry at their accepting her mother's invitation after having declined her own, though at the same time she would never have forgiven them if they had not come!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I wouldn't ask him to come in at first, though I knew he wanted to—just as he had wanted all along.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
All along by the sedgy banks of the rivers long lines of pages led their masters' chargers down to water, while the knights themselves lounged in gayly-dressed groups about the doors of their pavilions, or rode out, with their falcons upon their wrists and their greyhounds behind them, in quest of quail or of leveret.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
'You like Thornfield?' she said, lifting her finger; and then she wrote in the air a memento, which ran in lurid hieroglyphics all along the house-front, between the upper and lower row of windows, 'Like it if you can! Like it if you dare!'
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He has all along, since his coming, been trying his power, slowly but surely; that big child-brain of his is working.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The roof was poor and thatched; but in strange contrast to it there ran all along under the eaves a line of wooden shields, most gorgeously painted with chevron, bend, and saltire, and every heraldic device.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was not a bright or splendid summer evening, though fair and soft: the haymakers were at work all along the road; and the sky, though far from cloudless, was such as promised well for the future: its blue—where blue was visible—was mild and settled, and its cloud strata high and thin.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He is cunning, as I know from Mr. Jonathan and from the way that all along he have fooled us when he played with us for Miss Lucy's life, and we lost; and in many ways the Un-Dead are strong.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
All along the woodland track there did indeed run a scattered straggling trail of blood-marks, sometimes in single drops, and in other places in broad, ruddy gouts, smudged over the dead leaves or crimsoning the white flint stones.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
