devolving on

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Set yourself to do this, devolving on voluntary or paid helpers all that they can do as well as, and perhaps better than, yourself.

From John the Baptist by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

The President and Secretary-Treasurer shall perform the duties usually devolving on such officers.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

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

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 Ward, Harriet

Correspondents have a peculiar idea of the functions devolving on a postmaster, as the following letters will indicate, viz.:—

From The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time by Tombs, Robert Charles