The volatility of his humour was constantly leading him into playfulness, and he never lost an opportunity of making a pun or saying a quaint thing.

Yes, indeed he did; he perpetrated that atrocious pun, and wasn't a bit ashamed of it.

" Perhaps in this edifice, Eugenius, (the witty Duke of Wharton,) and his boon companion, have sported their puns and repartees over the glass; whilst the laughter-moving Sterne, pursuing the dictates of his heart, has wet the dimpling cheek of Eugenius by some random effusion of imagination and sensibility.

fertility of wit, said, that this was 'dignifying a pun.'

The old gentlemen who had been shoved about enjoyed the pun too much to be angry.

Strained interpretations have been put upon this or that item in Shakspere's plays; and yet it is generally true that some deeper reason can be assigned for his method in a given case than that "the audience liked puns," or, "the audience liked ghosts."

Do "Friends" allow puns?

I love to bring these aborigines back to the mansuetude they showed to the early voyagers, and before (forgive the involuntary pun), they had grown accustomed to man and knew his savage ways.

173; public singer, on preparing himself for a, ii. 369; public speaking, ii. 139; punctuality, not used to, i. 211; Punic war, would not hear of the, iii. 206, n. 1; punish, quick to, ii. 363; puns, despises, ii. 241; iv.

The two physicians were obliged to keep up a sickly intercourse, not intending a pun.

Lastly, as to the agreeable levities, which, though contemptible in bulk, are the twinkling corpuscula which should irradiate a right friendly epistleyour puns and small jests are, I apprehend, extremely circumscribed in their sphere of action.

We do not care to be cheated a second time; or, perhaps, the mind of man (with reverence be it spoken) is not capacious enough to lodge two puns at a time.

Gavroche, who loves puns and is very fond of slang, gave this nickname to a set of huge stones which stood before the prison of La Roquette, and on which the guillotine used to be erected on the mornings when a capital punishment was to take place.

You shall read one of the addresses over, and miss the puns, and it shall be quite as good and better than when you discover 'em.

Her father, without appearing to notice the commonplace pun, went on to say, "You don't know, Mr. King, what tricks she can play with her voice.

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

Have you not tried in some instances to palm off a yesterday's pun upon a gentleman, and has it answered?

After all, it is but a shadow of its former self (if you'll pardon the pun).

He made the pun an instrument of power; and had his wit been malignant, he could have pointed the pun to a sharpness that would have left wounds as deep as thought, and could have added a poison to it that would have kept them rankling as long as memory lasted.

Yet nine out of ten critics will pronounce this a very bad pun, because of the defectiveness in the concluding member, which is its very beauty, and constitutes the surprise.

The master of the ceremonies, who knew that Quin relished a pun, replied, "They have acted by you on truly Christian principles."

Thinking, perhaps, to draw out the odd character, he ventured upon a jest himself, repeating a pun invented by the man who made the first soda fountain.

Let Jim Perry go to Venezuela if he willhe may edit his 'Independent Gazette' amongst the Independents themselves, and reproduce his stale puns and politics without let or hindrance.

To Latinise a pun, we must seek a pun in Latin, that will answer to it; as, to give an idea of the double endings in Hudibras, we must have recourse to a similar practice in the old monkish doggrel.

He strung puns together by the scorenothing more easyin his improvised songs and conversation.