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

How little they who roll on their journey with all the speed and luxury that wealth can purchase, defying climate and distance, know the vicissitudes that fall to the lot of the weary foot-traveller!

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

For he had been a rover over the earth, and in his short life of thirty years had passed through more exciting scenes than fall to the lot of most men in a lifetime.

From Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Randall, Homer

Why didst thou not fall to the lot of a soul which should imitate and understand and reward thee?

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

Horace proceeds to draw a strong contrast between the very onerous duties and social obligations which fall to the lot of the high-born, and his own simple, quiet, independent life.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus