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

Why didst thou not fall to the lot of a soul which should imitate and understand and reward thee?

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

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

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