endlong
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of endlong
1175–1225; Middle English endelong; replacing Old English andlong along
Example Sentences
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Not more amazement seized on Circe’s guests, To see themselves fall endlong into beasts, Than mine, to find a subject staid and wise Already half turned traitor by surprise.
From An Essay on Man by Henry Morley
Then he rode endlong the gates of that manor nigh half-an-hour.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
Not more amazement seized on Circe's guests, To see themselves fall endlong into beasts, Than mine, to find a subject, staid and wise, Already half turn'd traitor by surprise.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan
And though ye cut them in never so many gobbets or parts, overthwart or endlong, evermore ye shall find in the midst the figure of the Holy Cross of our Lord Jesu.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And last, between the endlong beams I stretched Stout thongs of ox-hide, dipped in purple dye.
From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
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