While the explosive was being examined, Broxton sneaked off, and it was well for him that he did so, for otherwise the crowd would have Pounced upon him and given him the greatest warming up of his life.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
It occurred to Stas that if Nell were a negress she would have been Pounced upon at once, and that in part she owed her preservation to the astonishment of the beast, which seeing before it for the first time a being unknown to it, for a while was uncertain what to do.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
As these words were spoken a number of men reached the scene, some of them bareheaded and wearing only shoes, trousers and shirts, and Pounced upon the engine like wolves upon a carcass.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey