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 was morally obliged, as I then felt, to do a thousand things for him that usually fall to the lot of nurses and assistants.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

"But Miss Vavasour will have some day to suffer whatever pangs are supposed to fall to the lot of the deserted fair; then she will repent of her fascinations."

From A Modern Buccaneer by Boldrewood, Rolf

“But I’ve had so many narrow shaves—more than fall to the lot of most people—that I have become a bit of a fatalist.”

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram