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 heiress could not marry beyond the tribe, in order that the inheritance might at least fall to the lot of a tribesman.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max

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

Not often does it fall to the lot of a subaltern to win such high and well-merited praise from his commander-in-chief; but poor Morgan was one in a thousand.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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