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This is categorically untrue, yet Nick still pounces on Veronica.
And Mandanda spills the save, but pounces on it quickly.
Protected by Cuban counter-intelligence agents, Venezuela's government pounces on dissent.
McGregor pounces on him by the cage and lands some big blows.
He pounces on his critics' misdeeds and ignores those of his allies.
Badelj pounces on a loose ball in the box and punches it home.
Witsel of Belgium pounces on a loose ball and drives in a shot from distance.
Only Ms. York, a Broadway veteran, pounces on her role with the precise attack that's demanded.
And if Origo once dug into Mr. Orban's government, it now pounces on his political opponents.
It bursts through the walls and pounces on Brenner as his agents fire their weapons in vain.
He pounces on an older Muslim man, attacking him from behind and striking him over and over.
The tiny but clever hedgehog pounces on the big nose of the blundering tiger, blinding him into submission.
I try to hide from her so I can go back to sleep, but she just pounces on me instead.
What I&aposm seeing is that the right frequently pounces on Trump&aposs detractors and the left constantly savages Trump himself.
As Woodard holds his gift, the cat pounces on him, digging its claws into his head as he falls to the ground.
Quick on his feet, he pounces on the first joke he sees, making meals out of first impressions and well-worn stereotypes.
I don't want to know what my cat is thinking before he pounces on my foot while I'm trying to do tai chi.
Trump may beat her like a drum as he pounces on and helps further public knowledge of every one of the bombshells that is coming.
And Donald J. Trump pounces on NATO to inflame feelings of injustice in the United States by accusing European allies of "ripping off" the American taxpayer.
In one photo, the leopard pounces on the head of one of his adoptive brothers, who is almost twice his size and clearly a good sport.
To be "anti love," as Frances declares herself, is as ideologically satisfying as it is emotionally untenable, a weak position that Bobbi pounces on with startling pitilessness.
But there has been no criticism from the country's main opposition party, the Bangladesh National Party, which typically pounces on any controversial move by the Awami League.
While France's tax system pounces on gains from selling shares for either cash or stock, shareholders tied together by a special pact don't face the same exposure when companies merge.
An ecosystem of Apple rumormongers, which stretches globally and pounces on any scrap of information, has been trotting out bits and pieces of what to expect for almost a year.
No trend is spared: The show pounces on hygge, Marie Kondo, adult coloring books, Pod Save America, Reese Witherspoon's book club, and even self-help tomes written by a dog.
The short-term risk is that an interloper offers more for Refinitiv, or that a rival like Intercontinental Exchange or CME pounces on the LSE before its shareholders approve the deal.
If ever you needed proof of this, just look at the way the child in the above video gleefully pounces on the bride's dress during a key moment in her big day.
At some level, this is just one more campaign moment when a candidate makes a gaffe, the media pounces on it and an incident generates a 24-hour conversation before journalists move on.
After a corner Mats Hummels has the ball six yards out from goal but can't get it out from his feet for a shot before South Korean keeper Jo Hyeon-Woo pounces on it.
There will be big trouble if Bloomberg does not participate in early primaries, caucuses and debates and then pounces on Super Tuesday with a deluge of spending seeking to drown out the remaining candidates.
The video's crazy ... it starts with Forest Department officials in Jalandhar city trying to throw a net down on the animal from above, but it leaps up on the wall and pounces on one of the guys.
Jessie (Jay Hernandez) is a sexy widower who is apparently ready to get back out there, and all it takes is for him to tell Amy that she's a "good mom" before she pounces on him at the bar.
The way Foer pounces on that overused Tolstoy quote about happy families and then twists it just a little, dives off into that long litany of slights from the universe, and finally slams the door shut with "goodbye": It's fun.
But here is Trump's Twitter history on taxes: Trump Questions Hillary Clinton's 'Loyalty' to Bill Clinton Camp Pounces on New York Times Report on Trump Tax Returns Trump May Have Had the Worst Week in Presidential Campaign History Follow CNBC International on and Facebook.
Listen to his cadence on the opening bars—"They know where Carter at / straight off the launching pad / marchin' on the moon, motherfucker / I been to Mars and back"—or the way that he pounces on the syllables of the second verse, exulting in internal rhymes: That's a perfect example of Lil Wayne's rap skills at their most technically adept.
Content doesn't take pains to explain why she pounces on every scrap of viral fame, or what different platforms are (it uses real-life social media interfaces and native smartphone apps in almost every case), any more than it panders to the uninitiated by explaining who the IRL influencers and YouTubers (including Nat Tran, the Fairbairn brothers and Wengie) are when they cameo in montages where Lucy comes closer to her goal.
BLANKFEIN: WELL, EVERY TIME I GET ACCUSTOMED TO LOW VOLATILITY LIKE WE WERE TOWARDS THE END OF THE GREENSPAN ERA, AND WE THINK WE HAVE ALL THE LEVERS UNDER THE CONTROL AND THERE'S LOW RISK IN THE WORLD AND THE WORLD IS AWASH WITH LIQUIDITY THAT POUNCES ON EVERY ABORATION IN THE MARKET SO THINGS GO IN. SOMETHING ERRUPTS TO REMIND US OF OUR – THAT THAT IDEA THAT ANYBODY IS IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING IS HUBRIS AND THE WORLD DOESN'T PERFORM LIKE THAT FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME.
Also various Yue Jia Quan sets feature a "Preying Mantis Pounces on Prey" claw hand posture as well.
It hunts and pounces on prey like a wolf spider. Also, like a wolf spider, it carries its newly hatched young on its back.
She then pounces on T.J. at the first chance. T.J. puts up a good fight but he is no match for Kagan's magic. Only Munk's trick saves T.J.. Kagan narrowly escapes, vowing to kill T.J. someday. EPISODE #13.
However, Ryan wanted more and prefers to eat living humans every day. Dianne realizes that she was used by Ryan so that he can get rid of his family and their restrictions as he growls and pounces on her.
Krishna, who has been watching this, pounces on Sarathi and saves the two guys, Sagaa (Sarithiran) and Dharman (Krishna Kumar). Dharma kills Sarathi and thanks Krishna, and they become friends. A flashback reveals Krishna's story. He has a family, and his sister wants to become a doctor.
Predominantly insectivorous, the western yellow robin pounces on prey from a low branch or forages on the ground. Although it is rated as least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List of Threatened Species, it has declined in parts of its range.
A predator of a wide variety of small animals, the laughing kookaburra typically waits perched on a branch until it sees an animal on the ground and then flies down and pounces on its prey.Morcombe, Michael (2012) Field Guide to Australian Birds. Pascal Press, Glebe, NSW. Revised edition.
The scene where Gwangi pounces on the Ornithomimus has been copied many times in dinosaur films, primarily in Jurassic Park, when the Tyrannosaurus pounces on the Gallimimus. The smaller dinosaur had never appeared on the film screen before and although its movements were unlikely it was one of Harryhausen's favorite sequences in the film. The battle between Gwangi and the Styracosaurus features battle moves such as biting, stabbing, butting, and pinning. After Gwangi is captured, he is wheeled back to town in a cart; and for several of the long shots of this scene the crew built and used a full-sized mock-up of Gwangi, again because an actual model would have been far too small.
The Nihoa trapdoor spider or Nihoa mahina is a trapdoor spider endemic to Nihoa, Hawaii. These spiders are hunters that dig a hole near rocks cover it with a concealed trapdoor. These burrows are excavated completely with the spider's jaw. When prey approaches or falls in, the spider pounces on it.
Ingrid Jones is a psychotherapist. She appears in season 9. When Frank meets her at the hospital, she has a psychotic break and tricks him into releasing her. Before running away, she pounces on Frank, slaps him several times and gives him a kiss, making him fall in love with her.
When Pinocchio breaks down in despair, the Fisherman decides to fry him. Just as the Fisherman is about to lower Pinocchio into a frying pan, his cave is visited by a mastiff named Alidoro, attracted by the smell. The mastiff, upon recognizing Pinocchio, pounces on the Fisherman and takes the puppet away.
While T.J. bombards the base, MASSINA pounces on the convoy of supply ships in the rear. T.J. is forced to turn around to rescue them. That is when the main force of Massina's fleet comes down on Thunder Jet with its full might. Now, his entire fleet is in danger of being decimated.
But it is fellow character Dominic Copeland (David Ames) helps Zosia realise her attraction to Jesse. Following Jesse's tormenting the "predatory" character becomes "very animalistic" and pounces on Jesse, making her feelings clear. The pair continue their affair in secret but it soon becomes problematic. Arfwedson told Katy Moon (Inside Soap) that Jesse really gets Zosia.
Pair of Sri Lankan jackals (C.a. naria) in Udawalawe National Park The golden jackal often hunts alone, and sometimes in pairs, but rarely hunts in a pack. When hunting alone, it trots around an area and occasionally stops to sniff and listen. Once prey is located, the jackal conceals itself, quickly approaches its prey and then pounces on it.
It pounces on its prey and wraps its body around its prey, killing or stunning it with electrical shocks. It has been observed that Numbrays are not as common as other types of rays in the area around the Indian Ocean. This can be attributed to the relatively large doubling time for a population, reaching up to 18 years.
She sees the werewolf watching her from outside her window and lets it in, believing she is dreaming. The werewolf pounces on her and kills Stella in her bed. ; The drifter : A drifter killed on St. Patrick’s Day in March, he is found by an employee of the Electric and Gas Company while searching for downed lines.
Kiko, upon noticing the trouble, jumps into the bottom and pounces on the fox. Kiko brawls with the fox but receives hits as well. Despite switching to defensive mode, the kangaroo is able to hurl the fox into a great distance. Kiko celebrates his win by marching on a country road, and playing on his flute Yankee Doodle.
This Trapdoor Spider lives in a chamber which it makes in the desert . Like Trapdoor spiders, they feed parts of their kill to the spiderlings in the form of saliva. The spider uses the trip lines of its trapdoor to sense for any small-to-medium-sized creatures that disturb them, and pounces on its victim.
Danilov and Nikita Khrushchev drink in a room with a Stalin painting on the wall. The latter expresses his frustrations on Stalin's indecisiveness, revealing that Stalin offered all German-occupied areas in exchange for a ceasefire. And he continued criticizing the Soviet leader, even calling him as superstitious as an old woman. Moments later, a German air raid pounces on the area.
Juvenile western bluebird in Arizona The western bluebird pounces on the ground when looking for food, such as worms and berries. It also flies to catch aerial prey, like insects, when available. The western bluebird consumes water from nearby streams and commonly used bird baths. These birds wait on a perch and fly down to catch insects, sometimes catching them in midair.
Linet backs away in fear as Dagger transforms into the Wolf and pounces on her. Percival is talking to the villagers and reveals a secret entrance which Godfrey doesn't know about. They start to plan their attack when Nanny Bess runs up to him, screaming for help. Meanwhile, castle guards lead Lady Jean, her wrists tied, to a waiting Godfrey on horseback.
Alidoro upon recognizing Pinocchio, pounces on the Fisherman and takes the puppet away. Encountered in chapter XXVIII, the Fisherman accidentally captures Pinocchio in his net while fishing. He is surprised that Pinocchio is able to talk, but does not understand when he identifies himself as a "puppet". The Fisherman deduces that Pinocchio is a kind of rare "puppet-fish" and refuses to let Pinocchio escape.
Angered, Mickey pounces on the youngster Moses, who spins him around and scoots away, leaving Mickey's hat on his head. Both Mickey and the youngster have a tug'o'war on the basket until it shatters on Mickey, who is entangled. Then, Moses makes an army of leaves and marches around the house. Mickey manages to trap Moses with a sack, which he ties and punts away.
A moment later, we see him with his claws stuck into the ceiling, shaking like a leaf. Frisky downs his dinner in a flash of a second and runs off. Claude becomes disgusted with the dog and begins murmuring while looking at the audience. Frisky is seen running through the hallway where he sees his ball, and pounces on it causing it to roll under the carpet.
He volunteers to fetch An from Jiankang. Zhang Shun comes to the Yangtze and boards the boat of the pirate Zhang Wang. Midway across the river, Zhang Wang pounces on him when he is asleep, ties him up and throws him into the river. An expert swimmer, Zhang Shun frees himself underwater and gets to the opposite bank, where he finds the inn of Wang Dingliu.
Marina lives with the prince for one month and they become very close. One day, Fritz visits Marina and informs her that if she needs him, she can signal him by raising her pearl hairpin high in the air. The prince takes Marina horseback riding the next morning. While riding, the prince's jealous cat Jemmy pounces on Marina's horse, spooking the horse into throwing Marina off.
Roma is shocked to find her maid in such a ferocious form and shoots her with a gun. But Lalbai, who is already a possessing evil spirit, pounces on Thakurain and murders her brutally. Deepak and Anju are just crossing the backyard when Lalbai again comes there and tries to stop them. She tells them her real identity and attacks Anju, who falls in the swimming pool.
The blue-ringed octopus diet typically consists of small crabs and shrimp. They also tend to take advantage of small injured fish if they can catch them. Its known hunting behavior consists of pounces on its prey, seizing it with its arms, and then pulling it towards its mouth. It uses its horny beak to pierce through the tough crab or shrimp exoskeleton, releasing its venom.
He is outraged that he's been brought a Grimm and pounces on her. Donna woges into another Lebensauger and tries to ambush her too, just as Hank drives the car into and through a wall, giving Trubel time to stab Donna in the neck. Ken tries to attack before Nick kills him with a few bullets to the torso. The other two cowering girls are rescued.
They break free and Batman pours petrol all over before throwing a grenade on it. The heat from the flames destroy the plague while the flames burn the resort. Commissioner Gordon and his policemen arrest the terrorists while Red Claw attacks Catwoman from behind until a mountain lion pounces on her and hits her off the cliff, injuring her. Catwoman returns home and finds Maven gone.
The mouse proposes a trip to the church to retrieve the provisions stored there. When she beholds the empty pot, enlightenment dawns on the mouse: "First 'Top-off,' " she murmurs, "then 'Half-gone,' and then ..." The cat warns her to say no more, but the mouse persists. The cat pounces on the mouse and eats her up. "And that is the way of the world," the story closes.
He is repeatedly shocked that the firm does not possess a computer. Parker, meanwhile, insists on knowing about Wilkie's relationship with his mother; also about any bedwetting; and pounces on him when he admits to suffering from headaches. Parker concludes (correctly) that Wilkie is recovering from a nervous breakdown. After Mr James recites a limerick with lines ending on 'Bristol' and 'pistol', Wilkie aims his gun at the two men.
Unlike Steed's other partners, we know few things about her. She enlisted at an early age in the Intelligence Service as a trainee, under the number 69. Her first contact with the bowler-hatted agent is described in the first episode of season 6: "The Forget-Me-Knot". This was a rather spectacular meeting: thinking Steed is the "enemy" of her training, she pounces on him before she realises she has made a mistake.
In scene 3, Constance pounces on a servant because she believes that he is the Wise Fool, but she finds instead that he is giving out invitations to a masked ball thrown by Juliet's father. In scene 4, Romeo and Juliet enter the masked ball, sulking at each other. Romeo thinks that Tybalt is Constance and puts his hand on Tybalt's bottom. Constance enters, and Romeo tells her that he loves her.
In the Philippines species of Irenangelus are known to be kleptoparasites of Auplopus nyemitawa and Tachypompilus analis, and I. eberlmrdi is a kleptoparasite of Auplopus semialatus. The cleptoparasitic behaviour of I. lukosanus was observed and it pursues its host pompilid Platydialepis ryoheii as the latter transports its prey, Heteropoda forcipata to the nest. The kleptoparasitic wasp pounces on the spider and extends her gaster, trying to insert the tip into a slit of the prey's booklung.
Moose Mason is Dilton's closest friend. Despite their completely different personalities, their closeness stems from a mutual understanding of how well they complement each other. Moose considers Dilton his "little buddy" and will do anything to protect him. In current stories, this relationship is increasingly being portrayed as symbiotic, with Dilton standing up in favour of Moose—in one story, he even pounces on Reggie Mantle in defense of Moose, when the latter was insulting Moose.
However, Maurice (so terrified that he stops thinking and acts instinctively) pounces on the rat king and destroys it. Maurice emerges from Spider's chamber carrying the body of Dangerous Beans. When he is safely out, he collapses and dies. In ghostly form, he sees the Bone Rat coming for Dangerous Beans and makes a deal with the reoccurring personality in Discworld, Death – two of his remaining lives in exchange for both his life and the albino rat's.
However, Zagłoba, who accompanied him, spirited her away after Bohun was wounded by Mikołaj (Nicholas), one of the old Princess' sons. Instead of heading for Lubni, they headed for Czerkasy but are caught between Bohun's force and Chmielnicki's advancing army. To disguise themselves Zagłoba pounces on an old blind minstrel and a young boy and steals their clothes. At a village named Demianówka (Demianovka), Zagłoba persuades the villagers to flee to Chmielnicki's force taking himself and Helena with them.
He volunteers to find An in Jiankang Prefecture (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu) and bring him to Liangshan. Zhang Shun comes to the Yangtze and boards the boat of the pirate Zhang Wang. Midway across the river, Zhang Wang pounces on him when he is asleep, ties him up and throws him into the river. An excellent swimmer, Zhang Shun frees himself under water and gets to the opposite bank, where he finds the inn of Wang Dingliu.
At that juncture, Seeta comes to conscious and spots Sundaramma is skipping. So, she pounces on her, handovers the money and rushes to the Police Station when Sundaramma falls on claiming it as her own. At that point in time, Rao saheb arrives and brings out the reality of Sundaramma when she affirms that the real culprit is Sarabhaiah. Eventually, Vasu checks in removes the disguise of Sarabhaiah when he is about to skitter, Rangaiah catches him.
When it finds a bat it climbs to a higher level and jumps onto the tent from above, attempting to dislodge the bat. If the fallen bat does not fly away in time, the monkey pounces on it on the ground and eats it. The Central American squirrel monkey is an important seed disperser and a pollinator of certain flowers, including the passion flower. While it is not a significant agricultural pest, it does sometimes eat corn, coffee, bananas and mangos.
He is thrown the girl's hand, so that he can demonstrate he is one of them. The man refuses to do so, and screams as the girl's father pounces on him, only to wake up from what is supposedly a dream. The man is then confused as he wakes up in the same trap he fell into, and runs towards Bees-ghara. Finding the place deserted and burning, he assumes the worst and cries that he failed to save the children.
After a night of provocative dreams, Earle and he come across a store they believe, correctly, is trading in young boys. He mentions both to Holder. Perry Talisker - A hermit, outdoorsman and former butcher whose wife ran away after a hard winter, he decides after looking at a poster that his fate lies in having a showdown with a catamount, a local mountain lion. After tracking them throughout the book, he kills one just as it pounces on Jasper Copeland.
Like other shrikes, the Somali fiscal perches in a position where it has a good view all round and pounces on any suitable prey it observes. It feeds mostly on large insects such as grasshoppers, mantises and beetles. Prey is sometimes impaled on thorns for consumption later, and small birds have sometimes been found in these larders. During the breeding season, it will defend the area around its nest, being prepared to attack any bird that ventures near up to the size of a raven.
They hear a person call down to them, and they come upon the security guard who had earlier refused them entry. The group tell him that one of their crew has gone missing, but the guard instead tells them to quickly follow him and get out, ignoring their pleas to help them find Tangles. Something pounces on the guard as he nears a corner, dragging him out of sight into another tunnel with incredible speed. The group flees, screaming in terror through the narrow tunnels.
An adult female G. clavipes moves around the foliage hunting for a leafhopper, using her antennae in her search. When she finds one she pounces on it and grasps its hind legs, curling her abdomen upwards so as to be able to inject the prey with venom. This temporarily paralyses the leafhopper, and if it is the first one caught that day, the wasp eats part of it. With subsequent prey, she inserts a single egg into the abdomen between the tergites (hardened plates) with her ovipositor.
But a griffin (as Lír had told Sooz before) has two hearts: eagle and lion. The griffin, hurt but not slain, pounces on Lír after he courteously dismounts his horse, viciously wounding him. It is about to kill Sooz as well, but Schmendrick calls upon the unicorn Amalthea for aid. Amalthea quickly slays the wounded griffin and, though King Lír dies from his wounds (though not before joyously reuniting with the unicorn), she then brings Malka back to life with a touch of her magic horn.
The forest buzzard hunts along the edge of or in the forest, where it is a sit and wait predator which pounces on prey from a perch. It has been recorded as preying on small mammals, birds up to the size of a turaco or a francolin, snakes, lizards, frogs, grasshoppers, wasps, beetles and scorpions. Its breeding biology is little known but it is thought to be territorial and monogamous. The nest is a large structure of sticks with an interior cup, lined with green leaves and sometimes with beard lichen Usnea spp.
He then turns his attention to Donald, who he views as an easy, tasty meal. He pounces on him, but Donald, thinking it is another trick by the nephews, repeatedly slaps Louie across the face, spanks him on the bottom with his tail, threatens to tear him apart if he saw (them) again and storms back into the house with his pie. Louie later becomes interested in the pie and eats part of it before Donald intervenes. Louie then bursts into the house and smashes the door on Donald, destroying his pie in the process.
Shifting his attention completely on Jaq, Lucifer pounces on the pest and chases him into the heap of laundry, mainly into a light-blue nightgown. Finally sensing an opening, Gus makes his way to the necklace and struggles to get a grip on it. After a few more seconds of chasing, Lucifer temporarily emerges from the gown and examines it, attempting to get a better idea of where Jaq might be. Ironically, Jaq has hid himself in Lucifer's thick fur atop his head, using this pause to check on Gus.
The following night, Betty once again takes the stage as Lady Macbeth, but her performance is interrupted when Marco unleashes a flock of vengeful ravens into the audience. Recognizing the face of their attacker from the previous night, the birds swoop down on him sitting in the audience, gouging out one of his eyes. The murderer, who is revealed to be Santini, attempts to shoot at Betty on stage. Santini evades capture and pounces on Betty in her dressing room, dragging her to a far-flung corner of the building.
She fears he is cheating on her with Gisella and, when she sees them together, accuses Eduardo of cheating and calls off their engagement. Back in L.A., she becomes embarrassed when she finds out Eduardo asked Gisella to sketch designs for her wedding dress. The two make up once more. Cammie pounces on Ben almost immediately after his breakup and becomes his business partner in the opening of his club, Bye Bye Love, as an excuse to get closer to him although she is surprised at how dedicated she is to their venture.
The song has been called a "dire warning", largely to men, about the "trap" of marriage. A review of a James Naughton cabaret performance. "Mr. Naughton pounces on the dire warning to men lurking beneath the song's playful surface: that once the honeymoon is over, marriage can become a trap from which there is no escape." "Makin' Whoopee" begins with the celebration of a wedding, honeymoon and marital bliss, but moves on to babies and responsibilities, and ultimately on to affairs and possible divorce, ending with a judge's advice.
Zhang Shun, on his way to Jiankang to fetch the physician An Daoquan to Liangshan to treat Song Jiang, who is severely ill, comes to the Yangtze and boards the boat of the pirate Zhang Wang. Midway across the river, Zhang Wang pounces on him when he is asleep, ties him up and throws him into the river. An expert swimmer, Zhang Shun frees himself underwater and gets to the opposite bank, where he finds the inn of Wang Dingliu. Wang's father rents him a room and introduces his son to him.
Pete and the others then see Kathy arriving and pull her into the bedroom just in time to save her from the beast. The teens decide to head for Pete's bedroom, where there is a phone to call for help with, but as they emerge, the adult creature pounces on them. Pete flees to another room and from there onto the roof; Frankie and Kathy run up to the attic, while Ellen stays in Charles' room. The creature easily breaks down the door, bites Ellen's head off and defenestrates her body.
It catches mainly snakes, including venomous ones such as coral snakes, and also lizards, and, to a lesser extent, small rodents, bats and centipedes. The laughing falcon pounces on its prey from flight, often with an audible thud, and then biting it just behind the head, sometimes removing the head in the process. It carries the food to a perch to eat. It may carry small snakes in its bill and swallow them tail-first; big snakes may be carried head-forward in its claws, as an osprey carries a fish, and then torn to pieces.
Upon returning to the school, Jonathan's confidence has marginally increased and at the senior prom, he has a date with a girl much taller than he is. At the prom, he also finds the confidence to present Buffy with a Class Protector award. On graduation day, Jonathan joins the rest of the Class of 1999 in fighting against Mayor Richard Wilkins III who has completed his Ascension to become the demon Olvikan. During the battle, he aggressively pounces on many vampires and survives to see the school be blown up and catch a jumpy Cordelia in his arms.
Michael the postman was played by Leo Dolan in the first series and by David Janson from 1992 on. He is impertinent, high-strung, and completely overwhelmed by Hyacinth Bucket, of whom he lives in fear. He would rather avoid her, but tries to stand up to her when she pounces on him, which is every time he delivers (and occasionally throws) mail to her house. She constantly makes sure she takes all letters in person, never allowing him to put them in the letterbox itself and sternly rebuking him when he tries to do so.
At daybreak Pony's father remembers that he left his candle out in the barn when he was searching for Pony and he rushes out to get it in hopes that the barn has not burned down. While at the barn, he sees Jim Leonard sneaking towards the barn door. Pony's father pounces on Jim, grabs him by the collar, and takes Jim home where he tells his mother how he put Pony up to sneaking away. Pony gets sick for a week and his father talks with him and asks why Pony would want to run away from his home where they all love him so much.
While walking by Minnie Mouse's house one day, Mickey Mouse is enticed by the aroma of a cake Minnie is baking. Promised a slice if he cleans the yard, Mickey immediately jumps into raking up the fall leaves littering Minnie's lawn. While working in the yard, a small tornado named Moses as tall as Mickey comes along and makes his work more complicated: first the youngster hops into the basket and leaps over Mickey countless times before he pounds the basket in place, shaking it to check if it's snared. After he throws the leaves in, Moses pounces on him, spins him around, grabs his hat, and taunts him.
Many paragraphs end with a reference to Nature, such as "the dog suddenly pounced upon the flea" or "a koel lifted itself out of the heavy torpor of the afternoon and called tentatively, as if enquiring into the existence of the evening". This offers a parallel between what has just happened in the story and the natural world. The dog pounces on the flea immediately after Bakul tells Bim that he will marry Tara, and could represent Bim's isolation beginning to trap her. The koel calls tentatively after Bim has come to an understanding of herself and her relationship with her family and is finally at peace.
The mottled owl is nocturnal and spends the day in dense vegetation where it may be mobbed by other birds. Its large eyes are adapted for sight at low levels of light, and its hearing is also acute. It is a predator and at night often perches on a branch beside a glade or at the edge of woodland on the lookout for prey. When it detects a small moving object, it swoops down from its perch on silent wings and pounces on its target, which may be a small mammal, a bird, reptile or amphibian or a large beetle, grasshopper or other insect.
The wounded man tries to strangle Hester, but Lee shoots him dead. The remaining gunman turns out to be Morton, who manages to shoot Lee in the shoulder and ear. Taunting him with the story of how he killed his armed escorts – by tying one of them to the ground, binding his daemon to a horse and forcing the two apart to an unbearable distance, causing the man to die an agonising death – Morton moves in for the kill, his snake daemon advancing ahead of him. Hester pounces on Morton's daemon and drags it towards Lee, forcing Morton to come stumbling out of his hiding place in pain.
The largest prey killed by a leopard was reportedly a male eland weighing . A leopard shows its canine teeth Average daily consumption rates of were estimated for males and of for females. A study in the southern Kalahari Desert showed that leopards meet their water requirements by the bodily fluids of prey and succulent plants; they drink water every two to three days, and feed infrequently on moisture-rich plants such as gemsbok cucumbers (Acanthosicyos naudinianus), tsamma melon (Citrullus lanatus) and Kalahari sour grass (Schmidtia kalahariensis). The leopard stalks its prey and tries to approach as close as possible, typically within to the target, and finally pounces on it and kills it by suffocation.
The diet consists of insects and other small arthropods. One study of red-capped robin faeces conducted near Kambalda, Western Australia, revealed 96% of their diet was made up of beetles, while ants made up the remainder. Other prey recorded include spiders, and insects such as grasshoppers, including the Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera), adult and larval butterflies and moths, including geometer moths, dragonflies and damselflies, mantises, antlions, true bugs, including chinch bugs of the family Lygaeidae and shield bugs, various types of beetles, earwigs, and flies such as blow-flies and horse-flies. The red-capped robin mostly pounces on prey on the ground, although it can swoop and catch creatures while airborne.
As example, he places his refutation of the opposition's arguments (refutatio) far earlier in the speech than is usual, and he pounces on the opportunity for a fast disproval of the plethora of evidence collected over the first four days of the trial. His arguments are interwoven with one another and coalesce during the conclusion (peroratio). There is heavy use of pathos throughout the speech, starting with his assertion of fear for the guards posted around the courts by Pompey in the special inquisition (the very first sentence of the speech contains the word vereor – "I fear"). However, Cicero ends his speech fearless, becomes more emotive with each argument and finishes by the beseeching of his audience with tears to acquit Milo.
The old Town Hall at Ealing, London, built by Charles Jones in 1872, now a NatWest branch.Statutory and locally listed buildings in the London Borough of Ealing Ealing Civic Society. Retrieved 5 January 2015 In 1999, the chairman, Lord Alexander of Weedon, announced a merger with Legal & General in a friendly £10.7 billion deal, the first between a bank and an insurance company in UK history.Buckingham, Lisa et al. NatWest pounces on L&G; with £11bn takeover bid The Guardian, 3 September 1999 The move was poorly received in the London financial markets and NatWest's share price fell substantially.Treanor, Jill and Buckingham, Lisa NatWest forced to defend merger The Guardian, 7 September 1999 Seen as a driver of the ill-advised investment banking expansion, Derek Wanless was forced to resign as chief executive following the appointment of Sir David Rowland (who became executive chairman).Profile: Derek Wanless BBC News, 25 February 2004. Retrieved 24 January 2014 Also in 1999, in response to the much reduced NatWest market capitalisation, the much smaller Bank of Scotland made a hostile takeover bid for NatWest.

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