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
Plainly, therefore, nothing should be written into a Constitution that is of a temporary, experimental, or questionable nature, or which should fall to the lot of ordinary law-making and the changing convenience of practice.
From The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis by Figgis, Darrell
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)
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
By differentiation they become unlike, so that the sum of the functions which at first fall to the lot of all parts without distinction now is shared among the individual parts.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von
