The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
prep. (context obsolete English) because of
Usage examples of "along of".
I've been thinking right along of one way to eliminate these excessive excrescences, consisting of you going into a huddle with your tribe, and eliminating all but the one you know to be yourself, and I doing the same.
The wall is built all along of uncemented stones, but of so large a size as to make a very firm and durable rampart.