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
“But I’ve had so many narrow shaves—more than fall to the lot of most people—that I have become a bit of a fatalist.”
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
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
The moments passed rapidly; moments of delight which rarely fall to the lot of the wolfish trail dog.
From The Way of the Strong by Cullum, Ridgwell
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
