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 jealous Portuguese had seen enough to know that great perils were before the fleet or that a glory like to that of Columbus was now likely to fall to the lot of Magellan.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah
Not often does it fall to the lot of a subaltern to win such high and well-merited praise from his commander-in-chief; but poor Morgan was one in a thousand.
From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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
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
