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 Miss Vavasour will have some day to suffer whatever pangs are supposed to fall to the lot of the deserted fair; then she will repent of her fascinations."

From A Modern Buccaneer by Boldrewood, Rolf

This was the longest interview which was to fall to the lot of these high-spirited and generous-minded personages.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne

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

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