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
The heiress could not marry beyond the tribe, in order that the inheritance might at least fall to the lot of a tribesman.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max
And so May and Owen began their voyage of life together, followed by many good wishes, and by less of envy, hatred, malice, and uncharitableness, than perhaps fall to the lot of most mortals.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
Verily, the duties that fall to the lot of the Indian Army Officer are many and various.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon
The severity I speak of," continued Rollo, not regarding his words, "will mostly fall to the lot of the Se�or Mu�oz.
From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
