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

Verily, the duties that fall to the lot of the Indian Army Officer are many and various.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon

This was the longest interview which was to fall to the lot of these high-spirited and generous-minded personages.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne

It would indeed have been a matter for surprise had it been otherwise, since she enjoyed advantages which fall to the lot of very few.

From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel

Seven years have now passed away since you disappeared so suddenly; and so many continued years of sorrow and anxiety rarely, I trust, fall to the lot of any mortals.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig