We shall enjoy it more to-day with no punster along, and moreover it is a much brighter day and we shall see the reflections more clearly.
He was an inveterate punster and was always doing what Jack called "monkey tricks.
The punster is a low person, who refers to the awkwardness of the seal's gait by speaking of his not having his seal-legs, although a mariner or a sealubber, as he might express it.
He is friendly to man: providing the journalist with copy, the diplomatist with lying practice, and the punster with shocking opportunities.
Some men carry things to extremes; I wouldn't myself like to be a punster in toto, but only now and then to have a finger in one.
The able punster has perhaps more frequent opportunities than any other character, of securing the blessing pronounced upon the peace-maker.
The Brazen-head Rule is, when a punster stands his ground against a whole company, though there is not one to side with him, to the utter destruction of all conversation but his own.
The Scarecrow embraced his Imperial Punsteron the spot.
The Scarecrow seated himself on a silver bench and motioned for the Imperial Punster to sit down beside him.
A roar of pun-protesting groans filled the cavern, and as several of the boys arose in attitudes of vengeance, the punster made a dive for the exit and disappeared beyond the blanket portiere.
The punster smiled faintly, and for once in his life made no reply.
It was but natural, that when this great religious punster died, a suggestion should have been made that his epitaph should run thus: “Here lies Fuller’s earth.
He kept up a friendly correspondence with Gregory, the punster pope, and author of the celebrated jeu de mot on the word Angli, in the Roman market-place.
Some monster or punster in human form, declares he was called Fawkes or Forks, because he was ready to con-knive in anything sanguinary.
Byron was certainly as good a punster as ever wrote a burlesque for the old Gaiety; though a good deal of the effect of his puns was due to their delivery by Edward Terry.
As a punster Hook had few equals, and "A Chapter on Puns," which is herewith reprinted for the readers of THE SCRAP BOOK, constitutes an excellent specimen of the sort of humor for which its author was famous.
For himself, he showed his chief strength as a punster of extraordinary ability; probably no one before him ever tied so many and such elaborate knots in his mother-tongue as he.
Rhodes himself is a punster and a poet, sings a good song, and sells the best of wine; and what renders mine host more estimable, is the superior manners of the man.
The shallow punster will of course remark that he imagined that the only organs susceptible of musical expression were those of the sort invented by ST.
An incurable punster says they doubtlessly derived this strength from Gymn-aztecs, from whom it probably descended in a straight line.
