This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian mythi, is a philosopheme.

But Okonoriyaa continued to uproot the plants for the chewing sponge, and whilst she was in the middle of doing that, she suddenly heard a child crying.

Many a little makes a mickle.

A partially ordered set means a pair (P,≻) consisting of a set P and a partial order ≻ in P. As usual, when the meaning is clear, we may suppress the notation of ≻ and speak of the partially ordered set P. The ordered fields defined earlier are easily seen to be examples of partially ordered sets.