"Now be still so I do not bite you by mistake."
He said people keep coming because they get "bitten by the pumpkin."
And yet bit by bit I became aware that something had changed.
"These are people who must have got bitten by a clown as a kid."
I don't think a person would last long if bitten by a swarm of them.
You might say he's been well and truly bitten by the bug.
Others may find themselves forever changed, bitten by the desire to go on performing.
They drag them bit by bit into the blood stream.
It came away bit by bit, with clumps of his hair.
Turning to me and Jamie, she started back as though bitten by a snake.