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Example sentences for "mutual"

Lexicographically close words:
mutters; mutton; muttons; mutts; mutua; mutuality; mutuall; mutually; mutules; mutuo
  1. Their mutual friendship and brotherly rivalry almost recall the loves of Dante and Cavalcanti in an earlier day.

  2. The intimate connection of arts and crafts is characteristic of the Quattrocento, as also the mutual interaction of art with art.

  3. By degrees, a distrust which at first subsisted between the Indians and the trappers, subsided, and gave way to mutual confidence and good will.

  4. At first, there were mutual details of adventures and exploits, and broad joking mingled with peals of laughter.

  5. Two trappers commonly go together, for the purposes of mutual assistance and support; a larger party could not easily escape the eyes of the Indians.

  6. He then appointed a young Nez Perce to accompany his guest to the next village, and "to carry his talk" concerning them; and the two parties separated with mutual expressions of good will.

  7. They then gave mutual thanks for the time they had spent in each other's company, and so they parted.

  8. These are now amended, and you may both live happy if you will, because your union is founded upon mutual esteem.

  9. It is, however, undeniable that when two armies are drawn up in face of each other, separated by a small distance, and animated by mutual hatred, the chances of collision become great and imminent.

  10. This strengthens the mutual attachment, and that can never be too strong.

  11. Footnote 8: The treaty conferred a mutual right of search.

  12. Peel some negotiation might be entered into with Sir Robert, so that the subject might be avoided by mutual consent, the terms of which might be that Sir Robert should give up his demand to extort the principle.

  13. This waste of savage vegetation survives, in some part, to this day, with the same prodigality of vital force, the same struggle for existence and mutual havoc that mark all organized beings, from men to mushrooms.

  14. Long years of war and mutual wrong had embittered the Norridgewocks against their English neighbors, with whom, nevertheless, they wished to be at peace, because they feared them, and because their trade was necessary to them.

  15. They in turn, as they grow, interlock their boughs, and repeat in a season or two the same process of mutual suffocation.

  16. The minister at Versailles was beset by their mutual accusations, and Bienville wrote that his refusal to marry Cadillac's daughter was the cause of the spite the governor bore him.

  17. These vast western regions, now swarming with laborious millions, were then scantily peopled by savage hordes, whose increase was stopped by incessant mutual slaughter.

  18. Officials of every degree were continually trying to undermine and supplant one another, besieging the minister with mutual charges.

  19. She was neither timid nor bold, but merely natural, with never a suspicion that conventionality demanded a man and a maid to leave a mutual liking unconfessed.

  20. Wallace rose; and whispering the widow to abide by her guest till they should return, the twain went forth to enjoy the mutual confidence of friendship.

  21. Gloucester, who saw no other means of insuring to his friend the comfort of her society, was rejoiced at this mutual resolution.

  22. Have we not performed our mutual promises?

  23. The reason was that we both belong to an association of ministers in New York which meets weekly for mutual fellowship, enjoyment, and edification in all things bearing on ministerial character and duties.

  24. Let us, in the same manner and for the same reasons, say what sort of bonds shall unite these churches to each other and govern their mutual relations and common interests.

  25. Mutual confidences added a delightful flavour to the meal.

  26. In our mutual struggle she had all the advantages of the woman and actress.

  27. In the first days following our mutual confession, she gave me a packet of letters, written partly before, partly after the thirteenth of March.

  28. This was the secret of our mutual sympathy.

  29. But if we read Darwin's Descent of Man and Prince Kropotkin's Mutual Aid Among Animals and Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man, we shall find that the law of natural selection does not favour any such horrible conclusions.

  30. Since even animals can live together in mutual reverence, confidence, and courtesy, much more should you, O brethren, so let your light shine forth that you may be seen to dwell in like manner together.

  31. From this union and mutual aid of the gregarious animals arose the social instincts.

  32. Their prows had scarcely touched Cyprian waters when a fight took place between some of the allied ships, and to the edification of the Saracen the two greatest maritime powers of Christendom were soon engaged in mutual destruction.

  33. He did not wish to induce him to make any further explanations and promises, but his whole mind was bent upon mutual forgiveness, and bearing with one another in patience and gentleness.

  34. The mutual trust and friendship subsisting between the Reformer and his sovereign continued unbroken with John's son and successor, John Frederick.

  35. By the peace of Cambray he renewed the promise, given in the treaty of Madrid, of a mutual cooperation of the two monarchs for the extirpation of heresy.

  36. The constant personal intercourse kept up during the journey served greatly to promote a mutual understanding.

  37. The two men henceforth and for ever were mutual enemies, with no dealings together but those of heated controversy in writing.

  38. Luther and Melancthon were strongly opposed to such a step, inasmuch as the course of the controversy hitherto had not revealed a single point which offered any hope of reconciliation or mutual approach.

  39. Then the editors of these two great "public educators" begin a cross-fire of sugar-plums, much to the edification of the world and their own mutual satisfaction!

  40. Organization connotes mutual interdependence of the component parts, limitation of individualism, the circumscription of personal liberty.

  41. For over thirty years he has served ladies, and he knows no truth so certain as this, that nothing equals the mutual happiness of a true woman and a loving man.

  42. Their mutual confidence is so strong that he is quite willing to have her receive any visitors whom she pleases, and she added that her true mind served him better than any safeguard which he could put upon her.

  43. As it pleased her I directed my eyes, and saw a hundred little spheres, which together were becoming more beautiful with mutual rays.

  44. It is undoubtedly the case that the personal factors, physical and psychical, which determine the mutual attraction of young people, have dependent upon them the whole of human destiny.

  45. The heritage of ceaseless care May better far beseem The child of grief, the heir of wo; And what if mutual love may throw A joy-imparting beam On life's wide waste?

  46. It may save them a life-time of misery; for without mutual love, matrimony would be a state of abject servitude.

  47. With all my heart," said Clifford; "I am glad we have such a mutual bond of sympathy.

  48. But trade, as a voluntary exchange of presents, or as a bargaining for mutual advantage, had likewise its early beginnings.

  49. Carried on at first with timidity and distrust, because the parties belonged to different groups, it has developed a high degree of mutual confidence between merchant and customer, banker and client, insurer and insured.

  50. Free craftsmen in the towns found mutual support in gilds, when as yet the farm laborer or villein had to get on as best he could unaided.

  51. It rests upon mutual responsibility and good faith; it is a constant force for their extension.

  52. Mutual benefit is the result of exchange--it need not be the motive.

  53. It implies mutual respect, confidence, and good-will.

  54. Coöperation implies some sort of equality, some mutual relation.

  55. The most impracticable antinomians on one side, and obstructive Judaizers on the other, were cut off, or cut themselves off, from the Church; and a temper of mutual concession prevailed among the moderate.

  56. At that time there was a mutual tendency to sink their differences, and unite, in the Nazarene Church and the Jews.

  57. Both met under the apostle of love to clasp hands and learn of one another, to confess their mutual errors, to place in the treasury of the Church, the one his faith, the other his ethics, to be the perpetual heritage of Christianity.

  58. There was, on the contrary, close intercourse and mutual sympathy.

  59. The immemorial mutual hatred of the two Slav nations was stirred to its lowest depths, and it boiled and sputtered like a witches' cauldron.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    mutual agreement; mutual consent; mutual friend; mutual love; mutual support; mutual understanding; mutually beneficial