along vs upwardly

along

adv
  • Onward, forward, with progressive action. 

  • In company; together. 

prep
  • In a line with, with a progressive motion on; onward on; forward on. 

  • By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to. 

upwardly

adv
  • In an upward manner. 

  • Towards a higher level, position or status. 

How often have the words along and upwardly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )