fall to the lot

Example Sentences

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“We spent three years of happiness, greater and more unalloyed than I have ever known fall to the lot of others,” he wrote in his pocket diary two days after his wife’s death.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

Verily, the duties that fall to the lot of the Indian Army Officer are many and various.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon

Here he was—enjoying advantages such as rarely fall to the lot of the ardent lover.

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram

The self-denials and trials during the period of gestation do not all fall to the lot of the wife.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus

And the next one had to fall to the lot of Tom.

From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by Rathborne, St. George