It was see-your-breath cold on Monday night when two Norwegians received their gold medals for a cross-country team sprint.
As Phelps well knows, stardom has as much to do with timing as with talent, and on a night that turned see-your-breath cold, Sproles got hot at the perfect time.
I took deep, icy breaths (cold from the force of my inhalation) and exhaled, blowing all my desk papers away with the force of a freight train.
I have seen him anchored to conscious breathing, those long and tired breaths, colder by the hour.
My breath was cold, my body colder, and all I felt was the weight of skin and bones.
Close your mouth, take a good deep breath of cold air through your nose, feel that coldness at the top of your throat and you are experiencing the effects of these evolutionary changes.
In the beginning, her seizures sound like anxiety attacks: "A breath of cold metal, high in the back of her throat.
The junior shrink, who narrates, begins to sense hostile presences in this unhappy place, evidence of "another world, a world of fevered dreams and lunacy" — strange appearances and disappearances, weird sounds, the occasional "breath of cold air".
PLAY IN THE SNOW While the instinct of many people is to scurry indoors at the first breath of cold weather, Mr. Meirowitz spends most of his winter weekends, as he puts it, "playing in the snow".
