along of

English

Preposition

along of

1. (obsolete) because of
   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 3.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

     It’s all along of you that he ventured to do what he did.

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 11, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     "Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg. […] "

   • 1888, Harry Castlemon, “Chapter 16”, in The Steel Horse:

     You will find yourself in trouble all along of that nonsense, if you don't do what I say.

   • 1896, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Carbonels:

     Turning against your own poor father, to set them bloody-minded soldiers on him! And now he'll be taken and hanged, and I shall be a poor miserable widow woman all along of you!