The radioactivity of a typical shale is 100 API units.

You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.

Her skin was covered with tiny scratches.

The black paint had washed off, leaving gleaming dollar notes behind. Only the first row of notes in the trunk box were real. The rest were old newspapers, painted black and cut to dollar size. Pray tell, who was that 419er who first thought up these serpentine scams?