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
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
It would indeed have been a matter for surprise had it been otherwise, since she enjoyed advantages which fall to the lot of very few.
From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel
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
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 Cullum, Ridgwell
