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
I was morally obliged, as I then felt, to do a thousand things for him that usually fall to the lot of nurses and assistants.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
And the next one had to fall to the lot of Tom.
From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by Rathborne, St. George
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
They are now living in as much happiness as can fall to the lot of human beings.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
