The Collaborative International Dictionary
Long of
Along \A*long"\ [AS. gelang owing to.] (Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.)
Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep.
phr., owing to; on account of. [Obs. or Low. Eng.] ``On me
is not along thin evil fare.''
--Chaucer. ``And all this
is long of you.''
--Shak. ``This increase of price is all
along of the foreigners.''
--London Punch.
Usage examples of "long of".
The young woman was as tall as her grandfather, long of hair and leg with wide, cornflower blue eyes.
No, this was furred, long of muzzle, pricked of ear, white or gray, like the snow about me, but with amber eyes narrowed into slits.