John Law brainchilded the establishment of a national bank to expedite and secure the creation of credit.

She laid one cool hand on my forehead, and the sheer momishness made me have to swallow a few times before I could even speak.

Now among the treasures in the palace of the Dragon King of the World Under the Sea were two jewels having wondrous power over the tides. … Whoever owned them had the power to make the tides instantly rise or fall at his word, to make the dry land appear, or the sea overwhelm it, in the fillip of a finger.

this existing annectent genus is allied to the perennibranchiate Batrachians