I remember but one Pun in all the Evangely, and that was made by his and our master: Thou art Peter (that is Doctor Rock) and upon this rock will I build &c.
A Pun is a Noble Thing per se: O never lug it in as an accessory.
And I will promise never to utter another pun at his expense as long as I live," added Middlemore.
An untranslatable pun on the words "beseheiden" and "Bescheidenheit.
But I'll have revenge on that villainous man,--that I will, if it cost me a hundred pun note.
The Salick Rule is, a pretence to a jumping of wits: that is, when a man has made a good pun, the other swears with a pun he was just coming out with it.
The Rule of Repetition: You must never let a pun be lost, but repeat and comment upon it till every one in the company both hears and understands it; ex.
We may say with justice, "a pun spoken in good season, how good is it!
In the two instances I have just brought forward, the words posito and sustulit can be exactly translated into English, and both the sense and the pun retained.
In the early editions of the tract, this admirable pun is ascribed to Dr.
The punster could scarcely refrain from a pun with which he was big.
His father, who detested a punnot less than old Mr. Shandy himself, imposed a fine of half a crown for each commission of this offence.
A pun--the only pun possible under the circumstances--was on her lips.
Beyond all else, above all else, at that phase of the conflict, the insatiable desire to make a pun beset her.
The inconsequent punhad shifted a load of stratified self-conceit.
The possibility also suggests itself that a pun made by some priestly jester may have been the real factor that led to this mingling of two originally separate stories.
From this feeble pun on the part of some ancient Egyptian scribe has arisen the world-wide stories of the influence of the "Evil Eye" and the petrification of the enemies of the gods.
By a punon this word the god's origin might have been interpreted as having taken place from a split "stone".
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
