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

But most thrilling of all, perhaps, were Outa Karel’s personal experiences—adventures by veld and krantz with lion, tiger, jackal and crocodile, such as no longer fall to the lot of mortal man.

From Outa Karel's Stories South African Folk-Lore Tales by Metelerkamp, Sanni

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

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

The jealous Portuguese had seen enough to know that great perils were before the fleet or that a glory like to that of Columbus was now likely to fall to the lot of Magellan.

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah