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In short, not to pursue this process of elimination farther, and perhaps offend some friend of the class Hotel-Keeper, the Millard was not only about the cheese, per se, I punningly allude here to the creaminess of its society, but inevitably the place to seek my charmer.
Most of the "classic" accounts of the usage such as those by Mme. de Stael, Stendhal, Parini, Byron and his biographers date from very much later, when the institution was long past its prime if not actually moribund. Hence the word came to be applied punningly to the bow depending from a clouded cane or ornamental crook.
Browne himself is alluded to punningly in The Shepheards Oracles, where Philorthus, at sight of Anarchus approaching, asks whether he is "in a Browne study."
He lives in the Vatican, immediately over the Pope. The Romans ask punningly which is the uppermost, the Pope or Antonelli? All classes of society hate him equally. Concini himself was not more cordially detested. He is the only living man concerning whom an entire people is agreed. A Roman prince furnished me with some information respecting the relative fortunes of the nobility.
"Utterly," rejoined Ned, whose addresses had been limited solely to the dames of the middling class, and who had imagined himself at one time, as he punningly expressed it, sure of a dear rib from Cheapside, "utterly; she was very civil to me at first, but when I proposed, asked me, with a blush, for my 'references. 'References? said I; 'why, I want the place of your husband, my charmer, not your footman! The dame was inexorable, said she could not take me without a character, but hinted that I might be the lover instead of the bridegroom; and when I scorned the suggestion, and pressed for the parson, she told me point-blank, with her unlucky city pronunciation, 'that she would never accompany me to the halter!"
The sieges of Dôle made it very famous in the later middle ages, more especially the long siege under Charles d'Amboise, at the crisis of which that general recommended his soldiers to leave a few of the people for seed, and the old sobriquet la Joyeuse was punningly changed to la Dolente.
"Utterly," rejoined Ned, whose addresses had been limited solely to the dames of the middling class, and who had imagined himself at one time, as he punningly expressed it, sure of a dear rib from Cheapside, "utterly; she was very civil to me at first, but when I proposed, asked me, with a blush, for my 'references. 'References? said I; 'why, I want the place of your husband, my charmer, not your footman! The dame was inexorable, said she could not take me without a character, but hinted that I might be the lover instead of the bridegroom; and when I scorned the suggestion, and pressed for the parson, she told me point-blank, with her unlucky city pronunciation, 'that she would never accompany me to the halter!"
We join in her amazement at the proceedings, on a frosty morning, of the propellers of her jenrishka or, as it is punningly termed, pull-man-car who, compelled by law to wear their clothes in town, deliberately stopped when they struck the country and divested themselves of almost the last stitch a performance paralleled in the opposite hemisphere by a party of Fuegians, man, wife and son, who came off in a canoe to trade, and stripped themselves utterly of their one garment of fine sea-otter skins in exchange for beads and tobacco.
Dugdale. The brother and sister, she had already discovered, seemed on as pleasant terms as fire and water, since, as Harrie punningly averred, one invariably "put out" the other. They did not squabble Nathanael Harper never squabbled but they always met with a gentle hissing, like water sprinkled on coals.
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