devolving on

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During our eight years in Ranee Khet we had to discharge the varied duties devolving on missionary pioneers.

From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by Kennedy, James

When the land committee was formed he was made chairman, and on him fell practically all the onerous duties devolving on the committee during that period.

From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir

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

He has not the broad intellect requisite for the gigantic measures needed in such a crisis, nor the health and physique for the labors devolving on him.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

He wanted me to undertake the duties devolving on him in the Committee of which he was Chairman, and to attend to some other public matters in his absence.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie