Which preposition to use with pounces

on Occurrences 92%

"At the double-quick Scots and English, a few feet apart, yelling like demons, pounce on the attackers.

at Occurrences 6%

As he journeyed, a famished vulture made a pounce at the meat, and Hassan's turban fell off, with which the vulture, balked of the meat, flew away, far out of sight.

like Occurrences 6%

On top of that mess Narayan Singh pounced like a tiger, wrenching at arms and legs until I struggled to my feet againonly to be thrust aside by Jeremy as he rose and rushed at Yussuf Dakmar's two assailants.

with Occurrences 4%

It was notable, she was afterward to recognize, that there had been nothing of the famous business slackness in the positive pounce with which Mr. Pitman put it to her that, as soon as he had made her out "for sure," identified her there as old Julia grown-up and gallivanting with a new admirer, a smarter young fellow than ever yet, he had had the inspiration of her being exactly the good girl to help him.

to Occurrences 2%

You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea.

in Occurrences 2%

When a Man of his Wit and Smartness could put on an utter Absence of common Sense in his Face as he did in the Character of Bulfinch in the Northern Lass and an Air of insipid Cunning and Vivacity in the Character of Pounce in the Tender Husband, it is Folly to dispute his Capacity and Success, as he was an Actor.

without Occurrences 1%

Till we pounce without a cry.

from Occurrences 1%

He came pouncing from the darkness, a gaunt and dreadful avenger whose code of death was as remorseless as Ray's own.

into Occurrences 1%

And then it makes such a dickins of a nise as it pounces into that black pool at the bottom, that it's enough to bother the brains of a man entirely.

of Occurrences 1%

Then he made Lanyard out and, pulling himself together for the supreme effort, launched at his throat with the pounce of a great cat.

Which preposition to use with  pounces