They were both much relieved when Mr. Merivale by a series of the most atrocious puns allowed their laughter to flow forth without restraint.
Of course she'll be a success," said Mr. Merivale, and managed to implicate himself as usual in a network of bad puns that demanded the heartiest reprobation from his listeners.
Puns which are not translatable must be "explained," or else the sentence left out.
Footnote 24: For the next six pages or so the original literally bristles with untranslatable puns and plays upon words.
But it may be puns were then in fashion, as they were wit in the sermons of the last age, and in the court of King Charles II.
The title was a very lucky one, being, as you see, productive of puns world without end; which is all the species of wit some people can either practise or understand.
The sentence that puns the best upon your name, and suits the best with your nature, is too old, too common, and belongs already to the Talbots, Humani nihil alienum.
I did not interrupt the outlines of the story to illustrate its wonderful plethora of puns and pranks, but you will not be averse to a moment’s delay here for a taste of its quaint quality.
His puns (so easily spun from himself,) were transmuted into pence and pounds.
The Spectator takes Notice that Puns made a considerable Figure on the Banks of Cam, and Proverbs must needs do no less on the Banks of Isis, when so great a Scholar as Edward Llwyd set the Example, two in one Paragraph.
Each Inmate shall be permitted to make Puns freely from eight in the morning until ten at night, except during Service in the Chapel and Grace before Meals.
Inmates who have lost their faculties and cannot any longer make Puns shall be permitted to repeat such as may be selected for them by the Chaplain out of the work of Mr. Joseph Miller.
He didn't know that puns and laughter were the reactions on the part of us boys that caused us to know the facts of the book.
When we were conning our geography lesson, he would make puns upon such names as Chattahoochee and Appalachicola, and I would promptly explode.
A comic character in the sketch is the bohemian artist Leon de Lora, nicknamed Mistigris, with his puns and proverbs that were the rage in the early Forties.
This was not done, and just as well it was not; for if puns are ever objectionable, it is when they appear in epitaphs.
This was but repaying the historian in his own coin, for no one has made so many puns and plays on names and words as Fuller.
One of Erskine's smartest puns referred to a question of evidence.
One of the best 'legal' puns on record is unanimously attributed by the gossipers of Westminster Hall to Lord Chelmsford.
There are few such journeys of my own I can count to my credit, and few words I can remember, written or spoken, to set against his thronging puns and his constant sequence of "Yours ever.
The story is told that a man noted for his wit in puns was asked in regard to the writings of Thomas Carlyle if he did not like "to expatiate in such a field?
Pope, Hood, Lamb, and Holmes are the names of some whose punning arraignments of puns and punsters make them at once judges and prisoners at the bar.
Wretched as Voltaire's sneers and puns are, I think there is something more manly and earnest even in them, than in the present muddy French transcendentalism.
Wish he would take that confounded moon-eyed brute of mine and give me my forty puns back.
But there it is, Madame, and you will be very angry if I break the Sabbath, by making puns and guessing jokes all Sunday.
I have not the least objection to your making puns either in French, Italian, or German.
Not all the witty things you speak In compass of a day, Not half the puns you make a-week, Should bribe his longer stay.
His curious complicated puns are an example of this: Hood had used the pun to make a sentence or a sentiment especially pointed and clear.
We feel that it is a disgrace to a man like Browning to make spluttering and spiteful puns about the names Newman, Wiseman, and Manning.
The tragic necessity ofpuns tautened and hardened Hood's genius; so that there is always a sort of shadow of that sharpness across all his serious poems, falling like the shadow of a sword.
His puns were not all good (nor were Shakespeare's), but the best of them were a strong and fresh form of art.
Even pulpits pleased with merrypuns of yore; Now all are banish'd to the Hibernian shore!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
