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 LG cloches, they were almost completely covered by concrete.

Molokans themselves did not completely reject the name — even adding words like " drinking of the spiritual milk of God " ( according to I Peter 2: 2, " Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation ").

Like all separation axioms, completely regularity is not preserved by taking final topologies.

Like the famous overestimates of the atmospheric density of Mars, this was completely false.

Like raccoons and unlike ring-tailed cats and cacomistles, the rings go completely around the tail.

Like all types of sacrifices offered on the altar, the animal had to be completely unblemished.

Like the Economics Prize, this would have been possible by an amendment to the Nobel Foundation statutes and funding of the prize amount completely separate from Nobel's fortune.

Their first two cassette albums, Musical Destruction ( 1980 ) and Crime Pays ( 1981 ) were only ever released in very small quantities, and it was only when they finally got the money together to release an EP in April 1982 ( There's No Government Like No Government ) did they make the jump to a wider audience, the EP completely selling out within three weeks.

Like nearby North Kansas City, the city of Gladstone is now completely surrounded by Kansas City.

Like all knowledge in science, no theory can ever be completely certain, since it is possible that future experiments might conflict with the theory's predictions.

In the Galactic Empire series, taking place thousands of years later ( originally conceived as completely separate but made by Asimov in his later career into the direct sequel of the Robot Period ), Earth and settlements from it are still clearly remembered in The Stars, Like Dust.

Like a sensitized Daguerreotype plate, but unlike Talbot's earlier " sensitive paper ", better known as " salted paper ", the calotype paper had to be exposed in the camera only long enough to produce a very faint or completely invisible image which was then chemically developed to full visibility.

Like epidemiology, economics often studies the behavior of humans over periods too long to allow completely controlled experiments, in which case economists can use observational studies or quasi-experiments ; in these studies, economists collect data which are then analyzed with statistical methods ( econometrics ).

Like the yellow fever mosquito, it belongs to the subgenus Stegomyia ( Gr., " covered, roofed ", referring to the scales that completely cover the dorsal surface in this lytonic | μυία

Like the rest of her family, she is completely unaware of Raymond's crime.

Like Death or experienced witches, Susan can make herself completely unnoticeable to humans if she so chooses, though some people, such as Albert or Mustrum Ridcully, who are used to such things, are still able to see her if they concentrate and she is not actively trying to avoid their specific notice.

Like its visual cousin, the collage work may have a completely different effect than that of the component parts, even if the original parts are completely recognizable or from only one source.

Like most towns in Lesser Poland, Słomniki was completely destroyed in the Swedish invasion of Poland, and the period of prosperity ended.

Like in other parts of Mexico, indigenous ideas and practices, such as those of the Xochimilca, were not completely eradicated.

Like the other GM carmakers, Buick completely restyled its B-body and C-body cars for 1971.

Like Stanislavski, Brecht disliked the shallow spectacle, manipulative plots, and heightened emotion of melodrama ; but where Stanislavski attempted to engender real human behavior in acting through the techniques of Stanislavski's system and to absorb the audience completely in the fictional world of the play, Brecht saw Stanislavski's methodology as producing escapism.

" The Fear That Creeps Like A Cat ", the serial preceding " The Thing That Cries in the Night ", was completely recreated in 1996 by Jim Harmon Productions starring Les Tremayne as " Jack Packard ", Tony Clay as " Doc Long ", Frank Bresee as " Reggie York " and Fred Foy as " The Announcer ".

Like web addresses, e-mail addresses are often long, hence typing them completely is inconvenient.

In contrast to Joan of Arc ’ s next release, Life Like, these albums are completely different.