Fresh off his goal for Italy in a 1 - 0 win over Israel in World Cup qualifying, Lazio striker
Immobile was in full control at the Stadio Olimpico against remodeled Milan, which spent more than 200 million euros (
nearly $ 250 million) in the transfer market.
Toxic strains of K. veneficum immediately caused the prey to slow down by more than 50 percent, and
nearly doubled the proportion of
immobile algae in the water relative to non-toxic strains.
The white belly followed, tapering, and then, trailing behind, the fan of its tail and long parallel legs of crimson lacquer, the toes of each of them closed and streamlined, but the whole shape flattening, when the band of sunlight was crossed, into a two - dimensional shadow once more, enormously displayed across the rectangle of cloth, as distinct and
nearly as
immobile, so languid was its flight, as an emblematic bird on a sail; then sliding across it and along the
nearly still corridor of air between the invisible eaves and the chimneys, dipping along the curl of the lane like a sigh of wonder, and, at last, a furlong away slowly pivoting, at a gradual tilt, out of sight.