English

Preposition

along of

1. (obsolete) because of
   • Shakespeare

     And all this is long of you.

   • London Punch

     This increase of price is all along of the foreigners.

   • "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!" — Charlotte M. Yonge, "The Carbonels", 1896