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

Each was only authorized, however, to give two such invitations in the course of a term, so that the lucky chance could fall to the lot of but a favoured few.

From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Brazil, Angela

Not often does it fall to the lot of a subaltern to win such high and well-merited praise from his commander-in-chief; but poor Morgan was one in a thousand.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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

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