Citations:due course

Noun

 * 1)  Regular or appropriate passage or occurrence
 * 2) * a. 1399, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
 * You all know that in the due course of time / If you continue scratching on a stone, / Little by little some image thereon / Will he engraven.
 * 1) * 1590, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
 * Let us be cleared / Of being tyrannous, since we so openly / Proceed in justice, which shall have due course, / Even to the guilt or the purgation.
 * 1) * a. 1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
 * This is all according to the due Course of Things: […].
 * 1) * a. 1769, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
 * What I have to inform you, comes, I own, a little out of its due course; […].
 * 1) * a. 1803, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
 * […] but it did not oppress them by any means so long; and, after a due course of useless conjecture, that “it was a strange business, and that he must be a very strange man,” grew enough for all their indignation and wonder; […].
 * 1) * 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
 * Day by day, nevertheless, their sour and rigid wrinkles were relaxing into something which, in the due course of years, might grow to be an expression of almost benevolence.
 * 1) * 1898, Justin McCarthy, The Story of Gladstone's Life, page 27
 * The Reform Bill, although the Duke of Wellington described it as " a revolution by due course of law," set up in fact but a very limited suffrage, [....]