Adjective : to be matter-of-course in confronting the difficulties of existence.    From Dictionary.com. 

Cutting other cars off is a matter-of-course activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glorieta From Hell] Reference

Perhaps something in his matter-of-course way displeased her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

He checked his instruments and made a matter-of-course report upwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tar Aiym Krang]

Hand, foot, intellect and heart were the matter-of-course requirements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swan Song] Reference

It is impossible to treat such a subject in quite the ordinary matter-of-course way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from Poe] Reference

She received his approaches as a matter-of-course, without diffidence, without a blush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference

I asked in my most matter-of-course tone, as soon as I was seated, and had heard about her cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

Thus giving the rest of the world the impression that it's soupy down here, as a matter-of-course.    From Wordnik.com.  [-14.] Reference

Bathing seems to have been taken very seriously, with none of the present matter-of-course haphazardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

But to her surprise that lady, who indeed never fell into the mere matter-of-course, said to her in a few moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference

I did not object to the matter-of-course way you accepted it, because some races are made that way and can't help it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Lens]

He had stood much from Mr. Ellis, and taken it all as a matter-of-course, but, for once, his anger had got the better of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference

Burr did not seem disposed to press his advantage, and treated the incident as the most matter-of-course affair in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference

Duff received in the square-shouldered matter-of-course fashion of his countrymen approaching their nuptials in any quarter of the globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of a Star] Reference

Hitherto, he had esteemed the neighborhood in some dull, matter-of-course fashion, such as folk ordinarily give to their native territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

This glib command of the matter-of-course, with a ready use of the proverb and the 'old said saw, 'is a marked characteristic of the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

The tears stood in her eyes, but she spoke in as matter-of-course a tone as if she had simply come as her father's messenger to ask advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hetty's Strange History] Reference

"You speak as though my going was a matter-of-course, Aunt," said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Stone House] Reference

Such intimacies as these were the matter-of-course at Battle Field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cost] Reference

But it was a very matter-of-course sort of Yes, and disappointed Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friarswood Post Office] Reference

She said it in a quiet, matter-of-course tone, and Pitt started a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Red Wallflower] Reference

She looked at the bandages ruefully, but Sam was perfectly matter-of-course.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awakening of Helena Richie] Reference

Redding flushed, but restrained himself, and continued in a calm matter-of-course tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrecked but not Ruined] Reference

It was the matter-of-course to both of them that she should have protected her "friend.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference

"Very likely," said James, in a matter-of-course way, that amused the young man exceedingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbert Carter's Legacy] Reference

I answered him with a matter-of-course calmness as though some remote third person were in question.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Line; a confession] Reference

But she had softened to us all, and accepted us as her belongings, in a matter-of-course kind of way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative] Reference

She slipped a dirk into him in as matter-of-course a way as another person would have harpooned a rat!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3.] Reference

This was long ago, you know, when travelling and correspondence were not the easy, matter-of-course things they are now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904] Reference

In the most inartificial and matter-of-course way Peter here lets us see the apostolic conception of apostolic authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference

That the very meaning of the word poverty would have been forgotten would seem to be a matter-of-course assumption to begin with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Equality] Reference

His shrewd and matter-of-course probity in all money concerns had made him something of an autocrat in connection with these trusts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference

But Paul did not seem to think of them at all, or else to take their treatment as a matter-of-course, as he did his Union hardships.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friarswood Post Office] Reference

He waved the tray carelessly aside; the waiter said "Thank you," in a matter-of-course way, dropped the sixty cents into his pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference

It fretted him, this matter-of-course assumption of hers that she could not but be altogether pleasing, not to say enchanting to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grain of Dust] Reference

These accidents became so much a matter-of-course that when anything unusual occurred in the company our first impulse was to go and help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 2] Reference