As long as the world was content to take our manufactures as we chose to make them -- when, no other nation having entered the lists with us, we were without competitors, and absolute masters of the commerce of the world, this make-all save-all principle was undoubtedly the most effective. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
To explain every little mark of usury and covetousness, such as the mortgages, bonds, indentures, &c. the piece of candle stuck on a save-all, on the mantle-piece; the rotten furniture of the room, and the miserable contents of the dusty wardrobe, would be unnecessary: we shall only notice the more striking articles. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
But analysts said an external deal was not a save-all. From Wordnik.com. [News on www.kyivpost.com] Reference
And so, that nuclear power isn't the save-all to global warming. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
Another curious illuminating appurtenance was called a save-all or candle-wedge. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
The business of the dairy, like the feeding of hogs and poultry, is originally carried on as a save-all. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land] Reference
In reply, however, I assured him that I MUST waste myself willy-nilly, and that the "Review" was only a save-all. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference
Under every lamp stands a sort of "save-all," consisting of a small skin basket for catching the oil that falls over. From Wordnik.com. [Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2] Reference
Under every lamp stands a sort of “save-all,” consisting of a small skin basket for catching the oil that falls over. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage] Reference
All candles, whatever their material, were carefully used by the economical colonists to the last bit by a little wire frame of pins and rings called a save-all. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
The hog, that finds his food among ordure, and greedily devours many things rejected by every other useful animal, is, like poultry, originally kept as a save-all. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land] Reference
These, as they are fed with what would otherwise be lost, are a mere save-all; and as they cost the farmer scarce any thing, so he can afford to sell them for very little. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land] Reference
Directed by Toronto's Sara St-Onge and produced by Soft Citizen, Lobotomobile is a musical dark-comedy featuring a modern medicine man and his save-all procedure, the lobotomy. From Wordnik.com. [Mediacaster - Headline News] Reference
His hat was white, large in the brim, low in the crown, and pulled down so heavily on the high collar of his coat, that it turned up behind in a very decided way, indicating the save-all propensities of its owner. From Wordnik.com. [Finger Posts on the Way of Life] Reference
For having read his writings with the utmost application usual among modern wits, I could never yet discover the least direction about the structure of that useful instrument a save-all; for want of which, if the moderns had not lent their assistance, we might yet have wandered in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of a Tub] Reference
In reply, however, I assured him that I MUST waste myself willy-nilly, and that the 'Review' was only a save-all. "). From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
A save-all and two farthing candles. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference
Faith is the one save-all and cure-all. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
It's not the end-all, save-all, "Doan said. From Wordnik.com. [News Review - Top Stories] Reference
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