Another characteristic of such writers is that they always avoid a positive assertion wherever they can possibly do so, in order to leave a loophole for escape in case of need.

So she saw no loophole, and seeing none, felt cheated of something infinitely precious.

His eyes fell to the floor, as if seeking some loophole of escape there.

In other words, they discovered a loophole which they termed legal, on the principle that the parts should suffer for the whole, and that this principle was an integral part of the plan of Russian government.

He has dammed up all those lights that Nature made into the noblest prospects of the world, and opened other little blind loopholes backward by turning day into night and night into day.

I think that an English jury, not having the judicial loophole of 'Non Proven,' would have been bound to acquit her.

The front of the hall was full of Prussian infantry, who were knocking loopholes in the wall, as though they expected that there might be yet another attack.

Husband is legal guardian of children, and is required to provide, but law as it stands offers many loopholes.

We passed the loopholes that illuminate the dungeon vaults, and an old arch, now walled up, where prisoners, after having been strangled, were thrown into the lake.

Some go to the fire-trench, others to the machine-guns, others again to observation postsor O.P.'swhence a hawk-eyed Forward Observing Officer, peering all day through a chink in a tumble-down chimney or sandbagged loophole, is sometimes enabled to flash back the intelligence that he can discern transport upon such a road in rear of the Boche trenches, and will such a battery kindly attend to the matter at once?

When the latest witnesses were telling their story, I noted the possible contradiction, and hoped it might prove a loophole of escape.

To reach the upper loopholes and parapet the men mounted upon oak beams resting crosswise between the masonry and the rock.

Sandy seized the loophole through which to escape with his honour.

This was not Bismarck's plan; he fulfilled all the technical requirements in the strictest way; he carefully abstained from any action which he could not justify by an appeal to the letter of the Constitution; the government of the country was carried on with vigour and success; he allowed no loophole by which his opponents might injure his influence with the King.

He heard his wife scream above the rattle of the mill, and stumbling over basement litter he unstopped a loophole and saw the village already mounting in flames.

In this same parapet, low down, Nigg beheld a black and gaping apertureplainly a loophole of some kind.

Jemina, he said, had helped some when pointed at Manuel's scowling face; but Jerry opined that he would hereafter take the twins along too when he rode out anywhere, and that he guessed he'd cut another loophole or two in his cabin walls.

" Soon a bottle of water was passed in through the loophole, and then three or four ladders being placed in position, the men outside began with crowbars and pickaxes to enlarge the loophole sufficiently for the prisoners to escape.

It will be noted also that an unscrupulous employer could find loopholes in some of the statutes.