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

I remember on the eve of his confirmation that he told me himself that he felt he was training for the noblest vocation that could fall to the lot of man.

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Plainly, therefore, nothing should be written into a Constitution that is of a temporary, experimental, or questionable nature, or which should fall to the lot of ordinary law-making and the changing convenience of practice.

From The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis by Figgis, Darrell

How little they who roll on their journey with all the speed and luxury that wealth can purchase, defying climate and distance, know the vicissitudes that fall to the lot of the weary foot-traveller!

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

For he had been a rover over the earth, and in his short life of thirty years had passed through more exciting scenes than fall to the lot of most men in a lifetime.

From Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Randall, Homer