Definition
Regular or appropriate passage or occurrence
In Context
- "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."
- "This is all according to the due Course of Things: […]"
- "[…] 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; […]"
- "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, […]"
- "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."