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

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

The severity I speak of," continued Rollo, not regarding his words, "will mostly fall to the lot of the Se�or Mu�oz.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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.

By differentiation they become unlike, so that the sum of the functions which at first fall to the lot of all parts without distinction now is shared among the individual parts.

From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von