It is a charming faculty, but one often abused by those who are conscious of its possession: for there is something ghoulish in the avidity with which they will pounce upon the misfortune of their friends so that they may exercise their dexterity.
Beppo, who had been searching for them, emerged from the dark with a kind of pounce and talked Italian to them vociferously.
For the time being, Valancy realised keenly that death was actually waiting to pounce on her any moment.
Instead, you wait till the stock is trading at $28 then pounce.
"We saw this fish pounce a couple of times," says photographer Tim Laman.
Then, for a dreadful minute, everyone was still, staring up at its eyes and mouth and wondering where it would pounce.
Nonetheless, their persistence paid off in the 57th minute when they finally took the lead after the visitors failed to clear their lines, allowing Huang to pounce on a loose ball on the edge of the box and drill a low shot into the bottom corner.
An unexpected (and maybe big) opportunity in January could come to you, but don't immediately pounce on it.
But whenever the people who wanted to lodge a complaint against it came near the gate of its master's house, the dog would pounce upon them, barking and biting, which frightened them so much that no one dared to come to the house.
She looked up and saw a cougar perched on the fence ready to pounce on the youngest child.
Most dogs will pounce at thepotential of a food scrap dropping from the dinner table.
" Then she crept down to the cave of the Sow and said: "Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you shall go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.
When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in a single day, than the Kite could possibly pounce upon in a whole year.
