pouncings

While the glow holds one sees the thistle-down flights and pouncings after prey, and on into the dark hears their soft pus-ssh! clearing out of the trail ahead.

The Land of Little Rain 1903

While the glow holds one sees the thistle-down flights and pouncings after prey, and on into the dark hears their soft pus-ssh! clearing out of the trail ahead.

The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901

If the paper be sufficiently thin, several pouncings can be pricked at the same time, and a symmetrical design can be folded together into four and all pricked at once.

Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868

But for the fear of one of Mother Peter's noiseless pouncings in upon him, he would long since have climbed upon the sill and taken a look through the upper sash.

Cast Adrift 1847

Lady, and the third sweet Lady, and Madam at _Mile-end_, be daily visited, and your poorer neighbours, with course napfes neglected, fashions conferr'd about, pouncings, and paintings, and young mens bodies read on like Anatomies.

Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Francis Beaumont 1600