Like his father, Isaac also deceived Abimelech about his wife and also got into the well business.

Like the family of King Henry's second wife, the Boleyns, the Parr family had gone up in the world as a result of royal favor and successful marriages.

Like Isaac, his wife and daughter entered a monastery.

Deucalion, with the aid of his father Prometheus, was saved from this deluge by building a chest ( literally “ chest ” like the Bible's “ ark ,” which means “ box ”) Like his Biblical equivalent Noah and Mesopotamian counterpart Utnapishtim, he uses his chest to survive the deluge with his wife, Pyrrha.

In 1958, he won an Obie Award for his performances in Children of Darkness ( in which he made the first of many appearances opposite his future wife, actress Colleen Dewhurst ), for As You Like It, and for playing the title character in William Shakespeare's Richard III ( a performance one critic said was the " angriest " Richard III of all time ).

Like Badb, Nemain is identified as a wife of Neit and is sometimes listed as one of the three Morrígna.

Like Hathor, she was seen as the wife of Ra.

Like the Diamantina River that flows through it, it is named for Lady Diamantina Bowen, wife of Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the first Governor of Queensland.

Like his wife, he was canonized after his death and later became the patron saint of the city that would eventually grow around the monastery.

Like Sue Bridehead, Hardy's first wife, Emma, went from being free-spirited and fairly indifferent to religion in her youth to becoming obsessively religious as she got older.

Like other popularist politicians of his time, as embodied by Caesar and Antony, Clodius was accused of exerting a sexual magnetism that was attractive to both women and men and enhanced his political charisma: " The sexual power of Clodius, his suspected ability to win the wife of Caesar, might be read as indicating the potency of his political influence.

Like the late ruler of Monaco, her second cousin, she is a great-grandchild of the Scottish aristocrat Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, the first wife of Prince Albert I of Monaco, though Ira is descended from Lady Mary's second marriage with the Hungarian prince, Tassilo Festetics von Tolna.

Like other Cabinet members, he resigned over a social scandal concerning his marriage to his second wife Peggy.

Laurens Van der Post's two novels, A Story Like The Wind ( 1972 ) and its sequel, A Far-Off Place ( 1974 ), are about a white boy encountering a wandering Bushman and his wife, and how the Bushmen's life and survival skills save the white teenagers ' lives in a journey across the desert.

Like her siblings, the Princess Royal was educated by tutors and spent most her childhood at Buckingham Palace, Kew Palace, and Windsor Castle, where her wet nurse was Frances wife of James Muttlebury.

Like her mother Maria Isabella, Ferdinand was a child of King Charles IV of Spain and his wife, Maria Luisa of Parma.

Like his wife, Darrin shows constant support to Jaye, even though he is clearly worried that she is not sharing with them what is going on with her.

* Take A Girl Like Me ( biography by his wife, Diana Melly, 2005 )

Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron is about a man named Clay Loudermilk and his attempts to locate his estranged wife, Barbara Allen.

) For reasons unknown, Clay is in the audience at a porno theatre when he sees a bizarre BDSM feature ( also titled Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron ), the star dominatrix of which is revealed to be his wife.

Like Mr. Rochester, the wife Dimitri falsely claims died years ago is revealed to be alive just before his marriage to another woman.

Like the ogre, the zmeu likes to kidnap a maiden to be his wife in his otherworldly realm.

Like the Crown Prince, Moltke and other key Prussian leaders, he had an English wife ( Delicia Vyner ) and it was widely thought in conservative circles that this was the basis of a liberal Prussian clique.

Like another indirect German borrowing, fraŭlo ( bachelor ), which derives from fraŭlino ( Miss, from " fräulein ") less the feminine suffix-in -, edzo appears to be a back-formation of edzino ( wife ).

** " With Friends Like These " by Connie Willis

*" With Friends Like These ," Connie Willis, ( nv ) F & SF Feb. 1985

Like The Spotlight and Liberty Lobby, Willis Carto, one of America's most influential political racial theorists known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial, was one of its founders.

*" The Devil Like a Bear ", by Brian Willis ( Short Trips: Defining Patterns )

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.