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 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

Seven years have now passed away since you disappeared so suddenly; and so many continued years of sorrow and anxiety rarely, I trust, fall to the lot of any mortals.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

Here, as elsewhere, the unprofitable parts of science fall to the lot of poor men.

From Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Parker, Theodore

Horace proceeds to draw a strong contrast between the very onerous duties and social obligations which fall to the lot of the high-born, and his own simple, quiet, independent life.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus