saving clause

Example Sentences

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The more Mrs. Temple preached and warned, holding on to that one saving clause, Freke’s devotion to Beverley in his dying hours, the more attractive he seemed to Jacqueline.

From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot

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

But if he will examine the language of the prophecy, he will find he is entirely cut off from this "saving clause."

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

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 Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

Behind this there may have been a saving clause, to the effect that the young people might be relied on to pay no attention to their seniors' wishes, or anything else.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend