saving clause

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There may be entered a saving clause concerning the Teutonic nations, but it would not impeach the full integrity of the statement.

From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by Larus, John Rouse

But he accepted many of the old Scot's positions, merely gliding in a saving clause by way of amendment, to salve his conscience, as it were, between two forkfuls of hay.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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 Brinkley, F. (Frank)

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

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