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 the PDP-1 before it, the PDP-5 inspired a series of newer models based on the same basic design that would go on to be more famous than its parent.

Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".

The film has inspired countless romantic comedies, including A Lot Like Love, Hum Tum and Definitely, Maybe.

Like the Oghuz Book of Dede Korkut, an older and anonymous Central Asian epic, the Turkish folklore that inspired Yunus Emre in his occasional use of tekerlemeler as a poetic device had been handed down orally to him and his contemporaries.

Girls also wore Jelly Shoes, large crucifix neclaces, and braissers all inspired by Madonna's " Like a Virgin " video.

Like Pablo Picasso in the early days of the 20th century, Gauguin was inspired and motivated by the raw power and simplicity of the so-called Primitive art of those foreign cultures.

* The film inspired The Divine Comedy's Becoming More Like Alfie, which samples its opening dialogue in its introduction.

Like his second movie, Ricomincio da tre is centered on the troublesome love life of a Neapolitan character, partly inspired by Troisi's youth, as well as featuring Lello Arena.

Like his contemporaries in The Five, Balakirev believed in the importance of program music — music written to fulfill a program inspired by a portrait, poem, story or other non-musical source.

Like William Ernest Henley's poem Invictus that has inspired such people as Nelson Mandela when he was incarcerated, If — is a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism, regarded as a traditional British virtue.

Like many authors after him, Moorcock was inspired by the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, saying:

The phrase " Come on Eileen " is used as the chorus to the song, which was loosely inspired by the song " A Man Like Me " by the 1960s British soul group Jimmy James and the Vagabonds .< ref >

According to Morrissey, his hit single " Everyday Is Like Sunday " was inspired by Borth.

Like Keynes, they were inspired by the works of Knut Wicksell, a Swedish economist active in the early years of the twentieth century.

Like many people in Europe at the time, he was haunted by the idea of " decadence ", partly inspired by his reading of Taine and Renan, and admired classicism.

Langham went on to appear on Smith and Jones ' own programme, Alas Smith and Jones, playing an ineffectual panel show host ; this character apparently inspired John Morton to create the character of Roy Mallard, later to feature in his show People Like Us played both on radio and ( offscreen ) on television by Langham.

The headline-making divorce inspired French writer Françoise Mallet-Joris to write a hit pop song, Je veux pleurer comme Soraya ( I Want to Cry Like Soraya ).

Like so many others of that era, Britt listened to records of Jimmie Rodgers, which inspired him to learn how to yodel.

His " Die Like A Dog Quartet " ( with Toshinori Kondo, William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake ) is loosely inspired by saxophonist Albert Ayler, a prime influence on Brötzmann's music.

Like Inigo Jones some 200 years earlier, Hardwick had been inspired by Italian architecture, following a trip to Italy in 1818-19.

This was inspired by his own bout with self-diagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder ; in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette interview, he stated that, " Like Monk, I couldn't walk on cracks and had to touch poles.

It was this shooting that inspired Bob Geldof to write his song " I Don't Like Mondays " performed by the Boomtown Rats.

This interest was reflected in a series of covers or songs inspired by soul for a number of major acts, including Phil Collins's " You Can't Hurry Love " ( 1982 ), Culture Club's " Church of the Poison Mind " ( 1983 ), The Style Council's " Speak Like a Child ", ( 1983 ) Eurythmics ' " Missionary Man " ( 1986 ), and Steve Winwood " Roll With It " ( 1998 ).

His 1965 No. 2 single " Like a Rolling Stone " was also reportedly inspired by her.