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
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
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
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)
I have lived to the full age of man in as much comfort as can reasonably be expected to fall to the lot of a human being.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
