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

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

One reads so much of the dangers and privations which fall to the lot of missionaries that the fact that they all receive good salaries is always overlooked.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.

The jealous Portuguese had seen enough to know that great perils were before the fleet or that a glory like to that of Columbus was now likely to fall to the lot of Magellan.

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah

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