Word: lot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meanness, however trivial. His self-respect and high sense of honor were always with him in all emergencies. His death has not only saddened his friends, but deprived the world of one who would have conscientiously and faithfully fulfilled whatever duties might have fallen to his lot...
...crews of the six-oars are to be chosen by lot from the twenty-four men who compose the four club-six-oars...
Then whatsoever lot...
Well, so much for art; but is there no other resource at our command for the enjoyment of a Saturday afternoon? Certainly, there are the old bookstores on Cornhill and Washington Street. "Breathes there a man with soul so dead," that he taketh no delight in delving into a lot of old musty books, standard works of the writers of all time, - the firstborn of the art of printing, - handed down through many generations of book lovers, who have bequeathed us their thoughts and feelings in the form of marginal notes and comments? Take, for instance, an old epic...
...finer, - 't is my lot...