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 severity I speak of," continued Rollo, not regarding his words, "will mostly fall to the lot of the Se�or Mu�oz.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Horace proceeds to draw a strong contrast between the very onerous duties and social obligations which fall to the lot of the high-born, and his own simple, quiet, independent life.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus

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

I have lived to the full age of man in as much comfort as can reasonably be expected to fall to the lot of a human being.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas