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

Here he was—enjoying advantages such as rarely fall to the lot of the ardent lover.

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram

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

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

For nearly two months we had been companions in trials and privations such as fall to the lot of few men, and now our band was to be separated.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William