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

Each was only authorized, however, to give two such invitations in the course of a term, so that the lucky chance could fall to the lot of but a favoured few.

From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Brazil, Angela

Horace proceeds to draw a strong contrast between the very onerous duties and social obligations which fall to the lot of the high-born, and his own simple, quiet, independent life.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus

The severity I speak of," continued Rollo, not regarding his words, "will mostly fall to the lot of the Se�or Mu�oz.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Twelve healthy and obedient children do not fall to the lot of every Forest mother, and she wished with a sad little sigh that her other two eggs had hatched.

From Among the Forest People by Pierson, Clara Dillingham