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

Twelve healthy and obedient children do not fall to the lot of every Forest mother, and she wished with a sad little sigh that her other two eggs had hatched.

From Among the Forest People by Pierson, Clara Dillingham

Each was only authorized, however, to give two such invitations in the course of a term, so that the lucky chance could fall to the lot of but a favoured few.

From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Brazil, Angela

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

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