"In the very act"

1. John 8: 4
     4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
2. Alma 24: 23
     23 Now when the Lamanites saw that their brethren would not flee from the sword, neither would they turn aside to the right hand or to the left, but that they would lie down and perish, and praised God even in the very act of perishing under the sword—