Like Athena, Neith was a goddess of war and weaving, associating the card with the tangle of ordered threads that make up the fabric of communal life.

Like the cities of Bexley, Minerva Park, and Valleyview, Whitehall is an enclave of Columbus.

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.

Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.

Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

Like Emerson, Alcott was always optimistic, idealistic, and individualistic in thinking.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Like his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.

Like other children of the rich Meccan merchant families, Abu Bakr was literate and developed a fondness for poetry.

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.

Like the BBC Micro, the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources.

Like the previous, this Aeolus was said to have had had twelve children-six sons and six daughters.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

Like horses, zebras are able to stand, walk and suckle shortly after they are born.

Like the samurai, ninja were born into the profession, where traditions were kept in, and passed down through the family.

Lillie Langtry ( October 13, 1853 – February 12, 1929 ), usually spelled Lily Langtry when she was in the U. S., born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a British music hall singer and stage actress famous for her many stage productions including She Stoops to Conquer, The Lady of Lyons and As You Like It.

Like Scrooge, Flintheart was born in poverty and was working his way up the financial ladder.

Like her sisters Alecto and Tisiphone, she was born of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him.

Like many Welsh poets, he took a bardic name – " Ceiriog " – from the River Ceiriog, which flows through the Ceiriog Valley, where he was born.

* Leif Enger, author of the best-selling novel Peace Like a River was born and raised in Osakis.

Like William Warburton of an earlier age ( though perhaps he would not have relished the comparison ) he was a born fighter.

Like Felix ( who was born in 1809 ), Fanny showed prodigious musical ability as a child and began to write music.

Like his eldest brother John Rutledge, Edward was born in Charleston.

Like their elder brother, Kennedy ( born 1923 ), Ross and Norris were educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford, where, at his choice, he completed his law degree in two years rather than the usual three.

Like all passerines, the chicks are altricial and nidicolous ; they are born naked and helpless with closed eyes, and remain in the nest.

Like many of Iraq's early leaders, Hashimi, who was born Yasin Hilmi Salman, served as an officer during Ottoman control of the country.

Like all passerines, the chicks are born naked, and blind ( altricial ), and remain in the nest for an extended period ( nidicolous ) They quickly grow a layer of ashy-grey down.

Like the Traditionalist Catholic movement in general, the SSPX was born out of opposition to changes in the Catholic Church that followed the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 1965 ).

Like horses, zebras are able to stand, walk, and suckle shortly after they are born.

When he was the age of 3, in 1959, his parents divorced and he and his brothers were brought up by his maternal grandmother Alicia Acton ( born Chapman ; 1896 – 1968 ) until 1962, when his mother re-married Ernest W. Hook .. Like his band-mate Bernard Sumner, he took his step-father's surname, although in contrast of his friend he kept it, even more, he created his nickname, Hooky, from it.

Like other equids, zebra foals are able to stand, walk and suckle shortly after they are born.

Like Amuro, she was born on Earth, as Char had found her in India.

Like most other White Star Liners, these three ships were born of a special effort by the White Star Line to attract more immigrants by treating them with respect and making their crossings pleasurable.

: Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one ’ s youth.

Like most other viperids, the young are born enveloped in thin embryonic membranes out of which they emerge shortly after being expelled from the mother.

** Hongwei ( 弘㬙 ; 27 January 1719-25 September 1780 ), born to Lady Cenggiya, granted the title of " Prince Like of the Second Rank " ( 多羅理恪郡王 ).

The Mall in Bromley appeared on the cover of the 1982 album Sounds Like Bromley by Bromley born Billy Jenkins.