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 heiress could not marry beyond the tribe, in order that the inheritance might at least fall to the lot of a tribesman.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Max Duncker
Why didst thou not fall to the lot of a soul which should imitate and understand and reward thee?
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
For nearly two months we had been companions in trials and privations such as fall to the lot of few men, and now our band was to be separated.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger
Verily, the duties that fall to the lot of the Indian Army Officer are many and various.
From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly
