So have we seen a dog snatched by the hind legs from the strife with a fallen rival in the arms of some envious groom; so have we seen one half of him high in air-passive and offenceless-while the other half, head, teeth, eyes, claws, seemed buried and engulfed in the mangled and prostrate enemy.
"The Last Days of Pompeii"
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton