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 moments passed rapidly; moments of delight which rarely fall to the lot of the wolfish trail dog.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
Seven years have now passed away since you disappeared so suddenly; and so many continued years of sorrow and anxiety rarely, I trust, fall to the lot of any mortals.
From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
I remember on the eve of his confirmation that he told me himself that he felt he was training for the noblest vocation that could fall to the lot of man.
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Rosa Nouchette Carey
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 Florence A. Thomas Marshall
