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

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

For nearly two months we had been companions in trials and privations such as fall to the lot of few men, and now our band was to be separated.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William

Did she find peace in his devoted love, and in fulfilling the duties that fall to the lot of a clergyman's wife?

From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia

Here he was—enjoying advantages such as rarely fall to the lot of the ardent lover.

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram