Two or three Italians would pounce on the intruder, who would either hurry away or, if bold enough to fight, would get stung to death and pitched unceremoniously out of the entry.
Eager to get out of the forest, where a bear or a boar might, without giving me warning, pounce down on me, I pushed on, when suddenly I saw what appeared to be a monstrous giant standing in the portal of a cavern.
Hounds are often killed in these fights; and if hungry a cougar will pounceon any dog for food; yet, as I have elsewhere related, I know of one instance in which a small pack of big, savage hounds killed a cougar unassisted.
All the time bodies of cavalry were kept patrolling on the left to guard the people employed in the service from the attacks of the Cossacks, who were seen hovering in the distance, ready to pounce down upon any unwary stragglers.
As he neared the beach, he saw the Cossacks still hovering in the distance, out of the reach of the guns, but threatening to pounce down again, probably still in the hopes of making some prisoners.
Make the signal, Desmond; she must stir up her fires and get under way pretty smartly, or they will have slipped by before she can pounce down on them.
Well, captain, I tinkee you gettee more prize if you hide ship under lee of some island, and den pounce out on de dhows like wasps," said Hamed.
Desmond; "in spite of all odds, I should like to pounce down upon them, and set the poor negroes free.
But a party of Sophomores club together in such numbers as to render opposition useless, and pounce upon their victim unawares, as Brooks and his minions pounced upon Sumner, and as the Southern chivalry is given to doing.
Every moment he expected a company of soldiers to pounce upon him, or that their torpedo boats would capture him at the foot of the cliff.
I would rather join the Moors, treacherous as they are and ready to pounce on us at every corner, than submit to an inroad of new enemies to overrun the land we have rescued with so much blood.
If he did not secure her, some poor duke wouldpounce on her!
To believe in a cruel being ready to pounce upon them is enough to make the strongest miserable.
Here is the world before us, and I feel that such a man, were he to pounce on me now, might snap me up and lock me in a praying-box with small difficulty.
The captain's man Wilhelm had been the one to pounce on poor Beppo while the latter was wandering disconsolately.
As I was waiting for an opportunity to fire without any risk of hitting Jack, Pounce rushed through the air and darted upon the beast, and Fritz came quickly up and shot it dead with a pistol.
They were carefully watching the crevices and pools, and every now and then would pounce downwards and seize something which they swallowed with apparent relish.
Next morning Pounceand I again landed for breakfast.
It is followed by numbers of great ravenous fish, who devour quantities of the herrings, while above hover birds, as you have just seen, ready to pounce down on stragglers near the top.
I'd got my eye on him, and was just a-going to give a pounce when you stopped it.
On the other hand, the stately form of the Norman appeared to dilate in magnitude, like that of the eagle, which ruffles up its plumage when about to pounce on its defenceless prey.
For hours at a stretch they roll about, and chase tails, and pounce upon the quiet old mother with fierce little barks.
He had leaned forward with wings spread, looking down at me to be quite sure I was harmless, when, turning his head for a final look round, he caught sight of the hawk just ready to pounce down on him.
The dull colors of the Cossack dress excite another sort of fear; one might say that they are ghosts whopounce upon you.
While creatures are helpless, a prey for any enemy to pounce upon, Nature does not dress them conspicuously, you may be sure.
Luring little birds within striking distance by imitating their call notes, they pounce upon a terror-stricken sparrow before you could say "Jack Robinson.
At any rate we are likely to take some prizes," Lippincott said, "for the instant we get the news we can pounce upon any French merchantman.
He would think about it for hours before he fell asleep; and when he opened his eyes it would be waiting at his bedside to pounce upon him.
He was quick to pounce upon the essential fact, that this was no accident; it was something that must have been planned and brought about deliberately.
And so each day he hungered for the news, and when the paper came he would pounce upon it.
Was not Germany, like Pygmalion, surrounded by enemies who were ever ready to pounce upon and crush her?
And the crowd–the masses–would go to sleep each evening blinded to the facts, but convinced that numberless enemies were preparing to pounce covertly on their Fatherland.
Your remark that they will pounce upon us, once we leave the protection of our mine-fields, is very funny.
The vultures and other birds of evil omen are, meanwhile, hovering in mid air, ready to pounce upon the remnants of the feast when we are gone.
If one of us makes the littlest kind of move that villainous old Professor will pounce down.
They declined to explore the dense forest, seeking a foe that might only be bent on luring them along, until ready to pounce on them in a body, to make them prisoners of war.
They must be hiding behind each and every tree, ready to pounce upon him.
When he came opposite them they hardly dared to breathe, lest his keen ears catch the sound, and he pounceupon them.
Next in abundance and availability to these were the rabbits, whom she would lie in wait for and pounce upon as they went by.
He was just within pouncing distance, just about to make his pounce and pin down the unseen quarry, when a thrill of warning ran through him.
They learned to lie in wait beside the glimmering runways, and pounceunerringly upon the rabbit leaping by.
There was a dreadful whistling sound in the air, a pounce of great, flapping wings and wide-reaching talons, a strangled yelp of terror.
