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"The fact is, I like to indulge in my faculty of invention and amplification, and you may possibly have an idea that I have done so in the account I have given you of my female parent's early adventures. Ho! ho! ho!" and he heaved back, and indulged in a long, low, hoarse laugh, such as a facetious hippopotamus might be supposed to produce on hearing a good pun made by an alligator.
"A Fort is always strong," they said of him, making a pun on his name. "He is one of the Spanish Eminences who rule the Pope," a great English periodical stated, referring to him. On receiving his sister and his niece, the Cardinal put all his influence with the Black Party in play so that they should be accepted by the aristocratic society of Rome. He achieved that without much difficulty.
John Bull is asleep, or rather in a vision; the cunning demon, Speculation, blowing a thousand bright bubbles about him. This is goose and sage too, to borrow the pun of "learned Doctor Gill;" but we shrewdly suspect that Mr. Cruikshank is becoming a little conservative in his notions.
This pun had been repeated, and had reached Louis XIV, so that the chevalier presently heard, directly enough this time, that the king desired him to travel for some years.
"Of course he 'ad a bloke along of him, and, says he, `That there parson's son, says he, `is a cuttin' it fat? says he. `He do owe me a fifteen pun, says 'e, `and ef 'e don't hand it over sharp, says he, `I'll wake 'im up! And then " "Yes," said Mr Barnacle; "that's enough, my man, thank you."
"Boys, we are discovered at last." "Well, if you are, you needn't crow over it," came from Larry. "Roosters and crowing! Oh, Larry, I didn't think you'd begin to pun so early," put in Sam. "He just hatched it out," said Tom. "I suppose you think that sounds chic," joined in Dick. And then there was a laugh in which all but Hans Mueller joined.
Addison and Landor accuse Milton, with reason, of too great a fondness for the pun, yet surely there is something to please the mind, as well as the ear, in the description of the heavenly judgment, That brought into this world a world of woe.
This pun, says Brandt in his curious "History of the Reformation," is very injurious to the Synod, since it intimates that the Church loves blood. It never entered into the mind of these divines that Barnevelt fell, not by the Synod, but by the Orange and English party prevailing against the French.
Nevertheless, all alike take precedence over everybody else; speak rightly or wrongly of things, of men, literature, and the fine arts; have ever in their mouth the Pitt and Coburg of each year; interrupt a conversation with a pun, turn into ridicule science and the savant; despise all things which they do not know or which they fear; set themselves above all by constituting themselves the supreme judges of all.
"However," said Clifford, "I send my good nurse a fine gift every now and then to assure her of my safety; and thus, notwithstanding my absence, I show my affection by my presents, excuse a pun." "And have you never been detected by any of your quondam associates?" "Never!
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