devolving on
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In the discharge of the work devolving on me from day to day, I felt I should have been recreant to duty, and missed many opportunities of usefulness, had I gone away.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy
On Saturday morning, the 27th of August, all the officers not for duty obtained permission to go on shore; the command of the troops on board devolving on Captain Gordon, 91st regiment.
From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Harriet Ward
This could not be, hence the words must be restricted to the duties devolving on them.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
The two men also departed, after looking to the safe, and the last duties devolving on them, seeing that all was locked and double-locked.
From The Eye of Dread by Payne Erskine
Among other duties devolving on the boom agent is to inspect, personally, every raft of logs, setting down the number and mark in a memorandum kept for the purpose.
From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer
