But he comes in just as I am about to take my first bite of an ice-cold Snickers bar, one of which I buy from the cafe before every medical procedure.
I know the bite of the cold breeze that slithers through a drafty house.
And, in the bite of an Arctic wind, it really is cold, cold, cold.
Whether it's the bite of another cold winter or the fact that we live in a world in which technology has become a part of everyday life to the degree that phrases such as "smartphone" and "data roaming" are part of our vernacular, the idea of clothing built with endurance in mind is desirable.
The students were wearing scarves for the first time that year, their cheeks rosy with the first bite of real cold after the long Californian Indian summer.
And if you don't mind biting into a cold apple, throw it in the fridge.
Scientists have long wondered how the virus, which is transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito, survives the cold, mosquito-killing North American winters.
Biologists have seen it as a shield that protects people from the full force of other selective pressures, since clothes and shelter dull the bite of cold and farming helps build surpluses to ride out famine.
After three hours in the morning bite of yesterday's cold, the police divers set aside their manhunt and drove away, allowing the lake to keep its secret for at least another day -- and casting this corner of the park in an unsettling winter light.
For the clean bite of cold air drawn into my lungs and the vapor as I breathe out.
