If light-handed, or the wind fresh, let go the bowline and ease off the tack, (being careful to let the bowline go before the tack,) and haul up the weather clew.

Oligandry of flowers is more derived than polyandry ( at least within each major subdivision of the Dicots ) ; some liliate families ( such as Iridaceae) have 'lost' a staminal whorl and are more advanced in this respect than related families with a biseriate androecium; in several families of Angiosperms the number of ovules may be progressively oligomerised from many per ovary locule to a few (or a single one), etc.

However, in the face of irrefutable evidence that at a time when England was able to grow her own food supplies provision dealers wilfully adulterated their goods or gave short weight, we cannot be surprised that the punishments inflicted went beyond fines.

O behold this ring / Whose high respect and rich validity / Did lack a parallel; yet for all that / He gave it to a commoner o'th' camp, / If I be one.