Clause

Examples

• Better than he thought,--except the last clause. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The bill passed, however, with a clause that empty houses, barns, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• That, here he had a plan of action to recommend, with a conditional clause. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This was the clause--and no one who reads it can fail, I think, to agree with me that it meted out equal justice to all parties. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I maintain the clause to which you object, exactly as it stands. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The clause you drew in Colonel Herncastle's Will, informed them (didn't it? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And we should let him have the benefit of this saving clause, and not rudely withdraw the veil behind which he has been pleased to conceal himself. Plato. The Republic.
• But here came the conditional clause, and to this he entreated the special attention of his comrade, brother, and partner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You maintain your note on the clause, then, to the letter? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I was acquainted with all this, you know,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'except the last clause, long ago. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• At the last clause of this announcement a senseless anger swelled the young man's breast. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• His objections, in general, proved to be of the most trifling and technical kind, until he came to the clause relating to the twenty thousand pounds. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Once before--if you had your eyesight,' replied Miss Wren; the conditional clause in an under-tone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This last clause as a softening compliment to Mr Venus. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The other clauses contained in that document were of a formal kind, and need not be recited here. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sir James made little stoppages between his clauses, the words not coming easily. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The latter clauses of these special instructions he addressed to the fire, as he gave it back the ashes he had taken from it, and replaced the shovel. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His will began and ended in three clauses, which he dictated from his bed, in perfect possession of his faculties. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There were also secret clauses by which both France and Austria were later to acquire south German territory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Millie