Literary notes about along (AI summary)
The word "along" appears in literature as a versatile tool for conveying both physical movement and the notion of accompaniment or progression. In many texts, it establishes a literal sense of direction or motion—as when a character is urged to "come along" ([1], [2]), moves "along the road" ([3], [4]), or passes by a location ([5], [6]). In other cases, "along" underscores the idea of joining or combining forces, as seen when talents "help along" progress ([7]) or when a character is "dragged along" by circumstance ([8]). Authors even employ the term in more abstract, figurative ways, as in the sweeping vision of progress "along the grand roads of the universe" ([9]) or the interconnected flow of events that carry a narrative forward ([10]). Through these varied uses, "along" seamlessly weaves together settings, actions, and relationships, enriching the reader’s sense of continuity and movement within the text.
- Come along, little hound.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James - “Come along, Athos, come along!”
— from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - The boy took the gourd and his war club and started east along the road by which he had come.
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - They went along that road and found the well.
— from Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore - We passed along the outer bounds of the Manor House park until we came to a place where there was a gap in the rails which fenced it.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle - For the Mitrievsky Mill you must keep much more to the left, straight out of the town along the high road.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - He hadn't so very much talent, but he was handsome and good, and these are a kind of talents themselves and help along.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain - Mrs. Epanchin was dragging the prince along with her all the time, and never let go of his hand for an instant.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - Then did he turn upon him his new shoulders, And said to the other: "I'll have Buoso run, Crawling as I have done, along this road.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri
