saving clause

Example Sentences

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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

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

I am afraid," he said, standing up gaunt and stiff, with a scowl on his face, "that I must take advantage of that saving clause, Mr. Clode.

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John

To elude this difficulty a saving clause is thrown into this chapter to this effect.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.

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 Sully, James