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 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 many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.

Like many intellectuals before World War II he promoted eugenics.

Like many other cross-channel linguistic acquisitions, many Britons readily took this up and followed this rule themselves, while the Americans took a simpler rule and applied it rigorously.

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 craft acrylics, they adhere to many surfaces.

Like many cartoonists, Capp made extensive use of assistants ( notably Andy Amato, Harvey Curtis, Walter Johnson and Frank Frazetta ).

Like many ancient Egyptian deities, Anubis assumes different roles in various contexts.

Like many other buildings, it suffered extensive damage during the Second World War and had to be restored.

Like many artists, Watterson incorporated elements of his life, interests, beliefs and values into his work — for example, his hobby as a cyclist, memories of his own father ’ s speeches about ‘ building character ’, and his views on merchandising and corporations.

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of " the Just ".

Like many forest ungulates bongos are herbivorous browsers and feed on tree / bush leaves, bushes, vines, bark and pith of rotting trees, grasses / herbs, roots, cereals, shrubs and fruits.

Like the Authorized King James Bible and the works of Shakespeare, many words and phrases from the Book of Common Prayer have entered common parlance.

Like Case, many cyberpunk protagonists are manipulated, placed in situations where they have little or no choice, and although they might see things through, they do not necessarily come out any further ahead than they previously were.

Like most imperative languages in the ALGOL tradition, C has facilities for structured programming and allows lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.

Like many Prussian officers serving in Russia, he joined the Russian-German Legion in 1813.

Like many other chorded keyboards, this keyboard can be used with one hand.

Like many other NFL teams located in temperate climates, the Panthers traditionally wear their white jerseys at home during the first half of the season — forcing opponents to wear their dark ones under the warm autumns in Charlotte.

Like many programming languages, Perl has mechanisms to use external libraries of code, making one file contain common routines used by several programs.

Like many other Chinese historical figures, Chiang used several names throughout his life.

Like many proteases, chymotrypsin will also hydrolyse amide bonds in vitro, a virtue that enabled the use of substrate analogs such as N-acetyl-L-phenylalanine p-nitrophenyl amide for enzyme assays.

Like about half of the 1860 - 70 poems, it is a sonnet on a conventional theme -- the unhappiness of love.

Like the Finnsburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been used as a source of information about Scandinavian personalities such as Eadgils and Hygelac, and about continental Germanic personalities such as Offa, king of the continental Angles.

Like most early poetry the Eddic poems were minstrel poems, passing orally from singer to singer and from poet to poet for centuries.

Like most of Lamb's poems it is particularly sentimental but it is still remembered and widely read, often included in Poetic Collections.

* The Dark Wind ( 1920 ) this was a compilation of poems from The Hunter, The Dark Fire, and In Time Like Glass published in America.

Like many of Smith's poems, " Not Waving but Drowning " is short, consisting of only twelve lines.

Like many poems of the Anglo-Saxon period, “ Dream of the Rood ” exhibits many Christian and pre-Christian images, but in the end is a Christian piece.

After his baseball career ended, Quisenberry embarked on a second career as a poet, publishing three poems in 1995 and a book of poetry titled On Days Like This in 1998.

Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman.

Like many other Poe poems including " The Raven ", " Ulalume ", and " To One in Paradise ", " Annabel Lee " follows Poe's favorite theme: the death of a beautiful woman, which Poe called " the most poetical topic in the world ".

Other works from this decade include Cyclops 2000 for Oliver Knussen and the London Sinfonietta ; Ashberyana, settings of poetry by John Ashbery ; Spin5, a chamber concerto for violinist Jennifer Koh ; the Fourth Piano Sonata, for Anne-Marie McDermott ; Synaxis ; Metagong ; and It Happens Like This, a dramatic cantata on seven poems by James Tate premiered at Tanglewood with the composer conducting.

* It Happens Like This, a dramatic cantata on poems of James Tate-2010

Like many of Eliot's poems, " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " makes numerous allusions to other works, which are often symbolic themselves.

Like many drinking poems by Li Bai, the original poem " Bei Ge Xing " ( a pathetic song ) ( Chinese: 悲歌行 ) mixes drunken exaltation with a deep sadness.

Like her earlier suffrage poems, it had a significant effect on American public opinion and it was one of the influences leading the United States to enter the War.

Like most epic poems, it is the result of the conglomeration of differing versions passed down through an oral tradition by biwa-playing bards known as biwa hōshi.

Like his other early poems – " Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere " and " Galahad " – the poem recasts Arthurian subject matter loosely based on medieval sources.

Like the chanson de geste, the romance of adventure is but slightly represented in the south ; but it is to be borne in mind that many works of this class must have perished, as is rendered evident by the mere fact that, with few exceptions, the narrative poems which have come down to us are each known by a single manuscript only.

Like so many of his poems, its images are anthropomorphic and pulsing with pantheism.

Like many of Poe's later poems, " Ulalume " has a strong sense of rhythm and musicality.

Light Heavyweight Champion Jose Torres, in his 1971 biography of Ali Sting Like a Bee, said that as of 1963, Ali's prophetic poems had correctly predicted the exact round he would stop an opponent 12 times.

Like his stories, his poems show the influence of modernist writers from Arthur Rimbaud and T. S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg and Christopher Okigbo, and confirm his proclivity for perceptive social critique, intense self-exploration, and verbal daring.

* Just Like the Resurrection ( 1967 ) poems