Sentence examples for the common lot from inspiring English sources

Here luxury's the common lot.

Put differently, Ulysses is the archetype of the explorer, always fleeing from the common lot.

The New Yorker, June 26 , 1948P. 28 Here luxury's the common lot.

By Richard Wilbur The New Yorker, June 26 , 1948P. 28 Here luxury's the common lot.

Of those genuine groups that do seek to improve the common lot, nearly all carry out politically uncontentious activities.

City life has, from Classical antiquity, nurtured European culture, although tributary rural life was for centuries the common lot.

He doesn't die like Joe Gillis, but suffers a fate that, if the movies can be believed, is the screenwriter's more common lot: he's diminished in his own eyes.

Above and below ground, the land was their common lot; one grandfather died under a tractor, the other just survived a pit explosion.In this section Cultural Revolution Vaut le détour On the barricades Well read Relative values Freefall ReprintsMost family histories draw on letters and diaries.

The poem recognises that grief is our common lot.

She wrote, "I have felt that I was not born to the common womanly lot".

Eternity is not desirable because it's not part of our common lot".