saving clause
Example Sentences
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You mar the psalm, Sir priest, for you omit The saving clause.
From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by James Edgar Smith
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
Our pedantry wants even the saving clause of Enthusiasm.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Yet it would be hard to be sure of this, Captain Rodney being one of those who have "sighed to many," without even the saving clause of having "loved but one."
From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess
