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“I thought about throwing myself down a flight of stairs or have my eldest daughter pounce on top of me,” she said.

In the event, in the long cat and mouse game that Stalin played with him, the cat did not pounce.

Before long, though, the cat did pounce on friends, and family, and colleagues.

It was easy for the media to pounce when he admitted to lacking a comprehensive strategy for tackling ISIS.

The SPLC points to Tom DeWeese as one of the first pounce on the U.N. plan.

Sure enough, there was the kitten, not taking the least care of her necktie, just ready to pounce upon a big mouse.

And so each day he hungered for the news, and when the paper came he would pounce upon it.

She bent above the page, and in the fever of her interest seemed to pounce on it and scurry over it.

The Indians took advantage of this to pounce upon their unsuspecting guests, at a given signal, and began killing them.

If Carlo was waiting at the entrance to pounce upon him, he wasn't going to be caught napping.