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"Twenty-one pun' five, Roundhand, and nothing for the stamp!" cried out that audacious Swinney. "There it is, sir, re-ceipted. You needn't cross it to my banker's. And if any of you gents like a glass of punch this evening at eight o'clock, Bob Swinney's your man, and nothing to pay. If Mr. Brough would do me the honour to come in and take a whack? Come, don't say no, if you'd rather not!"
But of course T.O. laughed and offered a weak pun: "The 'dew' is over me, you mean! Oh, girls, this looks too cozy for anything in here! All the way up town I've been blessing you three for taking me in." Said Laura Ann: "If I were pun-mad, like some folks, I could do something quite smart there. But there, you poor, wet dear! You sha'n't be outdone in your specialty, no you sha'n't!
The pun itself flew through the prefect's reception rooms and afterwards through the town, and for a whole month called up a grin on every face in the province. Loiseau was himself a noted wag and famous for his jokes both good and bad, and nobody ever mentioned him without adding immediately, "That Loiseau is simply priceless!"
Would you entertain a proposition to go back to America and become my partner?" The boy rolled his eyes; it was plain that he was seriously alarmed. "You are ragging me, sir," he stammered, uncertainly. "Perish the thought!" "I I Really, sir " "I pay twenty-five dollars a week to office-boys. That's five 'pun' in your money, I believe.
I may speak my pleasure if I would have to my four-hours macaroons or gingerbread? and be duly thankful that this liberty and these delicates are granted me! Avena Foljambe, all your folly lieth not in your legs." Lady Foljambe evidently did not appreciate this pun upon her surname. "Dame!" she said, severely. "Well? I can fare forth, if you have not had enough.
But there are some in the class of symbolical monograms, already referred to, which we must notice more in detail. Most of the monograms of this class, like that of Correggio, given above, involve a pun, sometimes, indeed, not a very recondite one.
"`Oh! sir, said she, clasping her hands, `I've bin an' left my passel, a brown paper one it was, on the seat at the last station, an' there was a babby's muffler in it the sweetest thing as ever was an' f-fi' pun t-ten, on'y one sh-shillin' was b-bad boo-hoo!
There's a couple o' chaps down 'ere I'm told off to look arter special, but it's no good unless I can catch 'em red-'anded." "Red-'anded?" ses Sam. "With their hands in the chap's pockets, I mean," ses the tec. Sam gave a shiver. "Somebody had their 'ands in my pockets once," he ses. "Four pun ten and some coppers they got." "Wot was they like?" ses the tee, starting. Sam shook his 'ead.
His lordship's established type with the mob was a jack boot, a wretched pun on his Christian name and title. A jack boot, generally accompanied by a petticoat, was sometimes fastened on a gallows, and sometimes committed to the flames. Libels on the court, exceeding in audacity and rancor any that had been published for many years, now appeared daily both in prose and verse.
Still I venture to deny that even punning is incompatible with poetry, or that those who make the pun can have no deeper feeling in their bosoms which they are perhaps too shamefaced to utter. The fact is that that which gives its inexpressible charm to mountaineering is the incessant series of exquisite natural scenes, which are for the most part enjoyed by the mountaineer alone.
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