saving clause
Example Sentences
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Cecil's face fell at that saving clause, and in his heart he almost ventured to wish it had been otherwise.
From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Grant Allen
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
Is there no saving clause from this terrible requirement of completion?
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
This was the saving clause in her character.
From Money Magic A Novel by Hamlin Garland
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
