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

For he had been a rover over the earth, and in his short life of thirty years had passed through more exciting scenes than fall to the lot of most men in a lifetime.

From Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Randall, Homer

Each was only authorized, however, to give two such invitations in the course of a term, so that the lucky chance could fall to the lot of but a favoured few.

From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Brazil, Angela

Plainly, therefore, nothing should be written into a Constitution that is of a temporary, experimental, or questionable nature, or which should fall to the lot of ordinary law-making and the changing convenience of practice.

From The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis by Figgis, Darrell

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