saving clause
Example Sentences
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This might easily have led to disaster had it not been for a saving clause ever present in the mind of Henry Harper.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
He still disapproved, but he added to the first fierce protestation, "Things must be changed," the saving clause, "but I can not change them!"
From The Salamander by Owen Johnson
He is obliged to be as formal and businesslike in his mode of address as the lawyer's clerk who added at the end of a too ardent love-letter the saving clause "without prejudice."
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
Only one saving clause offered for Japan—to obtain from China a guarantee that no portion of Manchuria should thereafter be leased or ceded to a foreign State.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
But it is impossible to be continually introducing the saving clause, "all are not so bad as these."
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
