saving clause
Example Sentences
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"And my inclinations, I hope," she said, laughingly, "with no saving clause as to their being virtuous."
From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Annie Gregg Savigny
But is not this laugh just the saving clause of the story, suggesting that it was play and the spirit of mischief at bottom?
From Children's Ways by James Sully
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 one saving clause for the poor little creatures was the presence of their father and a man of practical intelligence such as the gambler.
From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Ridgwell Cullum
This ingenious legislator, by a saving clause, exempted from the operation of his note machines of new invention, which, after being proved to be such, were to be admitted at the nominal duty!
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
