fall to the lot

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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, as elsewhere, the unprofitable parts of science fall to the lot of poor men.

From Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Parker, Theodore

I have lived to the full age of man in as much comfort as can reasonably be expected to fall to the lot of a human being.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

And the next one had to fall to the lot of Tom.

From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by Rathborne, St. George

But most thrilling of all, perhaps, were Outa Karel’s personal experiences—adventures by veld and krantz with lion, tiger, jackal and crocodile, such as no longer fall to the lot of mortal man.

From Outa Karel's Stories South African Folk-Lore Tales by Metelerkamp, Sanni