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

I remember on the eve of his confirmation that he told me himself that he felt he was training for the noblest vocation that could fall to the lot of man.

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

And so May and Owen began their voyage of life together, followed by many good wishes, and by less of envy, hatred, malice, and uncharitableness, than perhaps fall to the lot of most mortals.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

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)

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