endlong

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Plunging endlong into the water, the impetus created by my fall from such a height would be slowly resisted by this denser element.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

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 Saintsbury, George

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 Morris, William

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 Mandeville, John, Sir

Then he rode endlong the gates of that manor nigh half-an-hour.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir