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

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

Did she find peace in his devoted love, and in fulfilling the duties that fall to the lot of a clergyman's wife?

From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia

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