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
They are now living in as much happiness as can fall to the lot of human beings.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
Duty was a thing that did not fall to the lot of us supers every day.
From Medical Life in the Navy by Stables, Gordon
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
Twelve healthy and obedient children do not fall to the lot of every Forest mother, and she wished with a sad little sigh that her other two eggs had hatched.
From Among the Forest People by Pierson, Clara Dillingham
