By a
reciprocal cross between two species, I mean the case, for instance, of a stallion-horse being first crossed with a female-ass, and then a male-ass with a mare: these two species may then be said to have been reciprocally crossed.
If a man states that a wing is necessarily relative to a bird, the connexion between these two will not be
reciprocal, for it will not be possible to say that a bird is a bird by reason of its wings.
The particular policy of the national and of the State systems of finance might now and then not exactly coincide, and might require
reciprocal forbearances.
The Attachment must be
reciprocal. Did he never gaze on you with admiration--tenderly press your hand--drop an involantary tear-- and leave the room abruptly?" "Never (replied she) that I remember--he has always left the room indeed when his visit has been ended, but has never gone away particularly abruptly or without making a bow." Indeed my Love (said I) you must be mistaken--for it is absolutely impossible that he should ever have left you but with Confusion, Despair, and Precipitation.
"That feeling is more than
reciprocal, princess," Varenka answered hurriedly.
So-and-so"; although it is assumed, of course, that the "feeling" is to be
reciprocal. Among our still more modern and dashing young gentlemen -- who are extremely averse to superfluous effort and supremely indifferent to the purity of their native language -- the formula is still further curtailed by the use of "to feel" in a technical sense, meaning, "to recommend-for-the-purposes-of-feeling-and-being-felt"; and at this moment the "slang" of polite or fast society in the upper classes sanctions such a barbarism as "Mr.
Love, however barbarously we may corrupt and pervert its meaning, as it is a laudable, is a rational passion, and can never be violent but when
reciprocal; for though the Scripture bids us love our enemies, it means not with that fervent love which we naturally bear towards our friends; much less that we should sacrifice to them our lives, and what ought to be dearer to us, our innocence.
As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a
reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves.
These two young men, moreover, never had occasion to save each other's lives, or to render any
reciprocal service.
Sir James never liked Ladislaw, and Will always preferred to have Sir James's company mixed with another kind: they were on a footing of
reciprocal tolerance which was made quite easy only when Dorothea and Celia were present.
"
Reciprocal refraction was the one thing to think about."
In it was the intimacy of contact with a beloved god who in such manner elected to express a
reciprocal love.