pounce upon
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do what only a true artist can do... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation.
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
The Duc, pike aloft, closed in upon Augustine; he brayed, he swore, he waxed unreasonable, and the poor little thing, all atremble, retreated like a dove before the bird of prey ready to pounce upon it.