devolving on
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The duties devolving on a writer were the duties of a clerk; to keep accounts; to take stock; to make advances; to ship cargoes; to see that no infringement of the Company's monopoly should occur.
From Rulers of India: Lord Clive by Malleson, George Bruce
Lucien evidently suspects an occult sinister allusion here, but Napoleon is only alluding to the succession devolving on the first child of their joint families.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
Health again began to fail, and we felt unequal to the work devolving on us.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by Kennedy, James
The first unpleasant duty devolving on me is described in the following order: Headquarters, Fort McHenry, Nov.
From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Smith, Henry Bascom
It well represents the unification of the religious and military offices devolving on the Church of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in Castile,—a bellicose house rather than one of prayer.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
