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

The heiress could not marry beyond the tribe, in order that the inheritance might at least fall to the lot of a tribesman.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max

I have lived to the full age of man in as much comfort as can reasonably be expected to fall to the lot of a human being.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

The severity I speak of," continued Rollo, not regarding his words, "will mostly fall to the lot of the Se�or Mu�oz.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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