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 Smith, James Edgar

This might easily have led to disaster had it not been for a saving clause ever present in the mind of Henry Harper.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

The one letter is only the plausible, affectionate, amplification of the other's impertinence, with a saving clause, on the first page, inserted from dictation, when the grievous indiscretion had been committed....

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

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

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