endlong
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The hero goes "overthwart and endlong," just like the figures whom all readers know in Malory, and some in his originals.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
Again did Birdalone take heart, and they hastened a long way up the stair, till Atra stayed at last at a door all done with iron, endlong and over-thwart.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
Then he rode endlong the gates of that manor nigh half-an-hour.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
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
So Sir Percivale turned back, but Sir Launcelot rode on across and endlong in a wild forest, and held no path, but as wild adventure led him.
From Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" by U. Waldo Cutler
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