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 the pillars of Hercules, like two ruined Titans guarding the entrance to one of Dante's circles, stand two great dead juvenile delinquents -- the heroes of the post-war generation: the great saxophonist, Charlie Parker, and Dylan Thomas.

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 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 single covalent bonds, double bonds can be described in terms of overlapping atomic orbitals, except that, unlike a single bond ( which consists of a single sigma bond ), a carbon-carbon double bond consists of one sigma bond and one pi bond.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

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 BCPL and FORTH, B had only one datatype: the computer word.

Like other genera associated with the early history of microbiology, such as Pseudomonas or Vibrio, members of the Bacillus genus ( 266 species ) are found ubiquitously, and it is one of the genera with the largest 16S diversity and environmental diversity.

Like other SI base units, the candela has an operational definition — it is defined by a description of a physical process that will produce one candela of luminous intensity.

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

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

Like most other types of subpixel rendering, ClearType actually involves a compromise, sacrificing one aspect of image quality ( color or chrominance detail ) for another ( light and dark or luminance detail ).

Like his audience and his critics, Bowie himself became increasingly disaffected with his role as just one member of a band.

Like Arius, he was a pupil of Lucian of Antioch, and it is probable that he held the same views as Arius from the very beginning ; he was also one of Arius ' most fervent supporters who encouraged Arius.

Like Brooke, he is uncritical of the show's journalistic tactics ( although in the episode Judge and Jury, he has reservations about their persecution of a priest accused of rape, mainly because he is a lapsed Catholic ); in fact he is usually the confidante of the executive producers, and the one they can trust to do what is needed to get a good story, or to persuade Mike to present a story.

Like the rest of the Canaries, Carnival is traditionally one of the biggest festivals celebrated on the island.

Like Laugh-In, the show minimized production costs by taping all of the recurring sketches for a season in batches — setting up for the Cornfield one day, the Joke Fence another, etc.

Like the first ruling Hohenstaufen, Conrad III, also the last one, Conrad IV, was never crowned emperor.

Like his father, Babur, he lost his kingdom early, but with Persian aid, he eventually regained an even larger one.

Like other Bolsheviks, he became commonly known by one of his revolutionary noms de guerre, of which " Stalin " was only the last.

For women to be mesollelot with one another is forbidden, as this is the practice of Egypt, which we were warned against: " Like the practice of the land of Egypt.

Like most fish, koi reproduce through spawning in which a female lays a vast number of eggs and one or more males fertilize them.

Like many other tribes, the Helvetii did not have kings at the time of their clash with Rome but instead seem to have been governed by a class of noblemen ( Lat.

Like the area's other tribes, the Guaraní were cannibals, but they usually ate only their most valiant foes captured in battle in the hope that they would gain the bravery and power of their victims.

Like Illyrians, Thracian tribes of the mountainous regions fostered a locally ruled warrior tradition, while the tribes based in the plains were purportedly more peaceable.

Like many other Native American tribes, the Pawnee had a cosmology with elements of all of nature represented in it.

Like the other tribes of the kingdom of Judah, the tribe of Judah is entirely absent from the ancient Song of Deborah, rather than present but described as unwilling to assist in the battle between Israelites and their enemy.

Like many of the settlers, Sullivan was highly impressed by the way the tribes cooperated, and sought to maintain this balance.

Like most borderland tribes, they were looked upon as barbarians by the Romans even though they had been Roman subjects for more than five centuries.

Like most of the Greek islands, Euboea was originally known under other names in ancient times, such as Macris and Doliche from its shape, Ellopia and Abantis from the tribes inhabiting it.

Like the Myrmidons and other Thessalian tribes, the Lapiths were pre-Hellenic in their origins.

Like all Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, most of the Kwakwaka ' wakw tribes have stories about their people surviving the flood.

Like other native tribes, the Wampanoags did not share the settlers ' concepts of private property.

Like much of the Connecticut Western Reserve, the area that makes up present-day Munroe Falls was previously inhabited by various tribes of American Indians.

Like much of the region, Greensboro can trace its roots back to Native American settlement, to the Mingo tribes of the Northern Iroquois.

Like the Illyrians, the mountainous regions were home to various warlike and ferocious Thracian tribes, while the plains peoples were apparently more peaceable.

Like the mainland tribes, the Nooghie, Noonuccal and Goenpul people struggled when Moreton Bay was opened up to free settlers.

Like other tribes in the northeast, the Garos ferment rice beer, which they consume in religious rites and secular celebrations.

Like the tribes of the Great Plains, they valued three feats during a battle.

Like other tribes, Mohawks have fluctuated in their native language fluency.

Like many other tribes in the region, they were excellent boat makers.

Like Asher, Gad's geographic details are diverse and divergent, with cities sometimes indicated as being part of Gad, and sometimes as part of other tribes, and with inconsistent boundaries, with Gilead sometimes including Gad and sometimes not.

Like the Plains tribes, the Cayuse placed a high premium on warfare and were skilled horsemen, often using their horse-riding prowess to intimidate other tribes.

Like the Great Lakes tribes, these people had a long history of close relations with the French.

Like some internment camps involving several tribes, the Bosque Redondo had serious problems.