Which preposition to use with punning

on Occurrences 31%

I remark to MARGARET, while this daring act of marine horsemanship in progress, that "I hope the horse won't founder"meaning to pun on the latter word.

in Occurrences 13%

The pun in the last line, Resto prigion d'un Cavalier armato, seems to me to decide the matter, though Signor Guasti and Signor Gotti both will have it that a woman must have been intended.

of Occurrences 6%

His manner, especially the distending of his cheeks, showed me that he was about to bring forth somethinga pun of some sort.

at Occurrences 5%

I supped last night with Rickman, and met a merry natural captain, who pleases himself vastly with once having made a pun at Otaheite in the O. language.

with Occurrences 4%

He even puns with the words angels and fees.

into Occurrences 2%

The Sinner was punned into Repentance by the former, as in the latter nothing is more usual than to see a Hero weeping and quibbling for a dozen Lines together.

among Occurrences 2%

These Reflections may impart some Light towards a Discovery of the Origin of Punning among us, and the Foundation of its prevailing so long in this famous Body.

as Occurrences 2%

It is with such reckless puns as the foregoing, that I endeavor to brace your spirits for the exhausting struggle with six hours of tragedy played in the most tragic and awful of modern languages.

about Occurrences 2%

English beauty, ever since the days of Pope Gregory, with his pun about Angles and Angels, has been greatly admired in the south of Europenot a little, perhaps, on account of the general fairness of its complexion.

to Occurrences 2%

His command over the verse itself is almost miraculous: he glides from extreme to extreme, from punning to pathos, from melancholy to mad merriment, sighing or laughing by the way at his readers or at himself or at the stanzas.

than Occurrences 1%

O'Riley had perpetrated many a worse pun than that before; it's to be hoped for the credit of his country he has perpetrated a few better ones since!

for Occurrences 1%

Ain't you bin an' offered fourteen pun for that there leetle dorg?

out Occurrences 1%

I have heard old Churchill tell Bussy English puns out of jest-books: particularly a reply about eating hare, which he translated, "j'ai mon ventre plein de poil."

Which preposition to use with  punning