Henderson of the South Carolina state troops was wounded early in the action, and the command Devolved on Col.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
The whole labour of introducing and of keeping alive, among an unlettered people, some taste for the graver forms of literature thus Devolved upon a few men of ardent temperament, vigorous understanding, and great productive energy, but with little sense of art, and endowed with faculties seemingly more adapted to the practical business of life than to the idealising efforts of genius.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Owing to the pressure of work which Devolved upon him, he had to leave her, however, to the care of Mea, Nasibu, and Saba, upon whom after all he depended the most.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz