He'd chosen to take a small bite of ESPA Time with an à la carte treatment off the spa menu, the "back, face and scalp massage".
And although he has handled hundreds, if not thousands, of specimens and has been bitten hundreds of times, only once was it by a venomous snake.
Hawkins said that he has been bitten "thousands of times" by snakes but only seven times by venomous snakes and never on the job.
This must be one of the most misquoted sound-bites of all time.
In other words, it took a little less than one full day, spread out over two and a half months, devoting bite-sized chunks of time, to memorise the entire dictionary.
Try it for a bite-sized window of time and see how it goes.
If you have a big project, limiting yourself to bite-size parcels of time is less intimidating and, therefore, more productive than wasting an entire weekend avoiding it entirely.
Variables such as age, gender, headache, durations of symptoms, known tick bite or time of the year on admission did not differ between groups.
Would the shark stay in its lane, or head over to take a bite of the 23-time Olympic gold medalist?
Shriver constructs her novels tightly around governing motifs; here Edison is opposed to Pandora's husband, Fletcher, a health nut named in honor of Horace Fletcher, the Great Masticator of the late nineteenth century, who recommended chewing each bite of food thirty-two times before swallowing.
