But here there was no credit, and our good-natured Lübecker having doled out a fourth zwanziger on account, was scarcely surprised to see it pounced upon and totally appropriated by the host in liquidation of some ancient score.
The leopard would have done, no doubt, as cats do, lain flat on the ground and waited for his prey, and pounced upon me as the smaller animal would do upon a mouse.
It was a good thing that the big gorilla came first, for he might have come after we had fired, and while we were trying to catch "his child," and then pounced upon us.
Before he could reload he waspounced upon, disarmed, and secured.
When, after a slow and irksome journey, the train entered Naocuanha station, Dacres and his companion were pounced upon and questioned by half a dozen gaudily-uniformed officials.
On a balcony below a lady with faded hair and gimlet eyes pounced at her.
To air a few views on the subject she pounced in on Fanny the very next day.
The Elfin suddenness with which she pounced upon me with this question, and a searching look, quite disconcerted me for a moment.
Instead she had pounced upon the smallest of the bandits with a gurgle of surprised delight.
Marjorie pounced upon Jerry and tried to pull her up from her chair.
In the canvas of resources which this impulse brought, cotton mills were pounced upon as affording the readiest and most permanent instruments of success.
Much as a kitten pounces on the shadow of shifting foliage on a lawn his brain pursued and pounced upon them, bringing up the best words available, yet that did not suit because the necessary words do not exist.
I pounced upon my opportunity--that is on the first volume of it--and paid scant attention to my friend's explanation of his appeal.
By no means abashed, Carnaby looked round and pounced upon Dagmar, who, having lost Sharnbrook in a struggle for him with her sister, was also disappointed of getting Peckover, whom Miss Leo had taken prompt care to annex.
He manoeuvred Miss Popkiss into a corner and then pounced upon her.
When the cat saw the wild boar's ear, she pounced upon it, thinking it was a mouse in the straw.
An important-looking inspector of police was posted adjacent to the very hangar over which the French flag flew, and promptly pouncedupon them.
A huge fellow, one of the enemy's backs, pounced upon the ball, lifted it a couple of yards high with a neat movement of his foot, and punted it over the heads of the players.
He pounced upon that youngster just as he issued from the chapel corridor, and with a heave and a jerk forced him through the narrow entrance into Middle School.
Then Moon pounced upon the leather, slipped, and fell in the mire.
He pounced on Tompkins, tore his coat open and exposed his tie.
Mr. Whitson had a colored girl living in his family, who was pounced upon by the slaveholders, awhile after the Dorsey arrest.
The invaders then pouncedupon the blooming Laney Van Tassel, the beauty of the Roost, and endeavored to bear her off to the boat.
She swooped down upon a big apple tree, and after shaking some golden apples from it she pounced down upon the earth.
The fellow who has pounced on me has neither taste nor feeling; the sight of fetters still gives him a start; crack a whip in his neighbourhood, and his ears tingle; the treadmill is an abode of awe to him.
Rich men used to make offerings to Hecate on the 30th of every month as Goddess of roads at street corners; and these offerings were at once pounced upon by the poor, or, as here, the Cynics.
Thrush had pounced upon the stump, and was holding it under the strongest of the electric lamps.
In the same breath he pounced on Thrush for a pessimist—apologised—and humbly entreated him to take a more hopeful view.
You know I pounced down upon that clever little wretch, the Marquise; and from her manner, and some things she said, my suspicions about her and that husband of yours were rather confirmed than disconcerted.
I had no doubt he was on the way to that Marquise; and it was the next day, as I tell you, that I pounced down on her.
He could not very well refuse her address, and yet he was not sure she would like beingpounced upon by this young man without a moment's warning.
It would be too humiliating to Gervase to admit that a sober man had beaten him in fair fight; hence the fiction that he was pounced upon suddenly and unawares by a man who was mad drunk.
He pounced down, and caught hold of Lox by the hair and carried him a mile up into the sky, and then let go.
In the night when I was fast asleep something pounced upon me.
Each mouse lived in constant dread of beingpounced upon and eaten.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pounced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
