saving clause

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Our pedantry wants even the saving clause of Enthusiasm.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis

This saving clause gave the German note the aspect of a preliminary to the usual backdown and to an admission of liability, with the palliating excuse of ignorance of the vessel's identity.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

You mar the psalm, Sir priest, for you omit The saving clause.

From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar

There is a faint pause,—so faint that Lady Rodney is unable to edge in the saving clause she would fain have uttered.

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

The bishops for the most part, therefore, neglected the saving clause of the canon respecting the Beguinages, and construed literally and pitilessly the orders for their abolition.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles