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 self-denials and trials during the period of gestation do not all fall to the lot of the wife.
From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus
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
How little they who roll on their journey with all the speed and luxury that wealth can purchase, defying climate and distance, know the vicissitudes that fall to the lot of the weary foot-traveller!
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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
