matter of course

• “The Dukes of York and Kent and a body of notables formed a committee to look into the causes of the distress, and purely as a matter of course they called upon Mr. Owen, the philanthropist, to present his views.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Worldly Philosophers

• “St. Basil's authority was equal to St. Anthony's among the leaders of Palestinian monasticism; yet they took it as a matter of course that life in the laura was the most perfect, though under ordinary circumstances it should not be entered upon before an apprenticeship had been served in a cenobium.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “Laurence Fitzgibbon had also just been over about his election, and had been returned as a matter of course for his father's county.”

  Phineas Finn

• “Originally the word scribe meant "scrivener"; but rapidly it was accepted as a matter of course that the scribe who copies the Law knows the Law best, and is its most qualified expounder: accordingly the word came to mean more than it implies etymologically.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “Oliveyards are a matter of course in descriptions of the country like vines and cornfields.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “And when William T. Vartrey (of the Lichfield Iron Works) was gathered to his grandfathers, in the following autumn, Mr. Kennaston was rather as a matter of course elected to succeed him in the vestry.”

  The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions

• “For in a long appreciation to Zeitzler (which as a matter of course would have been seen by Hitler) he had written,”

  Barbarossa

• “Tavara was the Allimir girl who had been seeing to Belegir — shy as a fawn she was, but judged against Belegir, all of the Allimir commonfolk were timid little things, ill-at-ease with the magic that Belegir lived with as a matter of course and that even Glory had come to take for granted.”

  The Warslayer

• “This would be a matter of course in Andor, though he would have to be a woman "— she actually grinned, in apparently genuine amusement —" or in any other land save Murandy, where matters are much the same as here in Altara.”

  Lord of Chaos

• “The boys took it as a matter of course that we were to cut out hams and flitches; and we therefore did so, though I warned them that they — need not expect much pleasure in eating bacon from a tough old African boar like this.”

  Swiss Family Robinson

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