saving clause

Example Sentences

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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

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 Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

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 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)

This was the saving clause in her character.

From Money Magic A Novel by Garland, Hamlin