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

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

Duty was a thing that did not fall to the lot of us supers every day.

From Medical Life in the Navy by Stables, Gordon

For he had been a rover over the earth, and in his short life of thirty years had passed through more exciting scenes than fall to the lot of most men in a lifetime.

From Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Randall, Homer

One reads so much of the dangers and privations which fall to the lot of missionaries that the fact that they all receive good salaries is always overlooked.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.