"course" in the Big Book

I took a night law course, and obtained employment as investigator for a surety company.

Potential alcoholic that I was, I nearly failed my law course.

By the time I had completed the course, I knew the law was not for me.

It was fun to carom around the exclusive course which had inspired such awe in me as a lad.

Of course he would have dinner, and then I could drink openly with him.

Of course I would!

We are assuming, of course, that the reader desires to stop.

And it means, of course, that we are going to talk about God.

Of course it was.

Did not these feelings, after all, determine the course of our existence?

But we believed in life—of course we did.

Of course we couldn’t.

The wording was, of course, quite optional so long as we expressed the idea, voicing it without reservation.

Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning,

This was our course: We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick.

Those of us belonging to a religious denomination which requires confession must, and of course, will want to go to the properly appointed authority whose duty it is to receive it.

Of course, we sometimes encounter people who do not understand alcoholics.

Of course she did not, and the whole situation has long since been adjusted.

Though there may be justifiable exceptions, and though we wish to lay down no rule of any sort, we have often found this the best course to take.

We may not be able to determine which course to take.

Of course, we all fall much below this standard many times.

Of course, there is such a thing as incompatibility, but in nearly every instance the alcoholic only seems to be unloving and inconsiderate; it is usually because he is warped and sickened that he says and does these appalling things.

When they become too dangerous, we think the kind thing is to lock them up, but of course a good doctor should always be consulted.

If you and your husband find a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.

As soon as his sobriety begins to be taken as a matter of course, the family may look at their strange new dad with apprehension, then with irritation.

One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading this book in manuscript form told us that the use of sweets was often helpful, of course depending upon a doctor’s advice.

Of course our friend was wrong—dead wrong.

Of course that isn’t so, and such people often may impose on you.

This may seem severe, but it is usually the best course.

After satisfying yourself that your man wants to recover and that he will go to any extreme to do so, you may suggest a definite course of action.

The matter of physical treatment should, of course, be referred to your own doctor.

You are betting, of course, that your changed attitude plus the contents of this book will turn the trick.

After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic run-around—provided, of course, they are willing to have a third party in the picture.

Of course, this chapter refers to alcoholics, sick people, deranged men.

Of course he couldn’t drink, but why not sit hopefully at a table, a bottle of ginger ale before him?

He had, of course, the familiar alcoholic obsession that few knew of his drinking.

The two friends spoke of their spiritual experience and told him about the course of action they carried out.