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And Devereux first grew so pale as almost to frighten Toole, and then broke into a savage fury and did not spare hard words, oaths, or maledictions. Then off went Toole, when things grew quieter, upon some other theme, giggling and punning, spouting scandal and all sorts of news and Devereux was looking full at him with large stern eyes, not hearing a word more. His soul was cursing old Mrs.
"What do I find eh? ha yes here it is a Cornish auctioneer pushed back a window shutter these are the very words, madam what more he did to that shutter, or what it did to him, is not told, but he must have come by some damage, because he received 55 pounds. I am not punning, madam; I am much too serious to pun; I should have used the word savage instead of barbarous. "Now, what was the result?
"Agreed; even by your own making out, it will be no great sin. He is half dead already I only do half the work of tossing him over, so it will be only quarter murder on my part, and he would have shown no quarter on his." Here Jack left off arguing and punning, and went forward and lowered down the sail.
The Government is carrying an immense weight. Untold treasures are in our hands. We are doing the very best we can. Don't badger us. Keep silence, and we'll get you safe across." Punning is of course out of fashion. The best pun in the English language is Tom Hood's: "He went and told the sexton, And the sexton tolled the bell." Dr. Johnson said that the pun was the lowest order of wit.
But some old sculptor, on a stone still preserved in the village, has made a punning derivation for it, by carving a mell, or mallet, and a rose over it. This stone was part of a wall of the old prison, long since pulled down. The site of Melrose, like all monastic ones, is fine.
This gentleman was proverbially fond of punning. About the same time that he was made Provost of Eton, he received, also, a Stall at Windsor. A young lady of his acquaintance, while congratulating him on his elevation, and requesting him to give the young ladies of Eton and Windsor a ball during the vacation, happened to touch his wig with her fan, and caused the powder to fly about.
Meanwhile the dog is clear in his own conscience, and draws, with a human nicety, the distinction between formal and essential truth. Of his punning perversions, his legitimate dexterity with symbols, he is even vain; but when he has told and been detected in a lie, there is not a hair upon his body but confesses guilt. To a dog of gentlemanly feeling theft and falsehood are disgraceful vices.
One of Swift's Miscellanies. This joke, often attributed to Lamb himself, will be found in Ars Punica, sine flos Linguarum, The Art of Punning; or, The Flower of Languages, by Dr. Sheridan and Swift, which will be found in Vol. XIII. of Scott's edition of Swift. Among the directions to the punster is this: Rule 3. The Brazen Rule.
The Christian name he found of course in the punning sonnets, CXXXV. and CXLIII.; the surname was, according to him, hidden in the seventh line of the 20th Sonnet, where Mr. W. H. is described as A man in hew, all HEWS in his controwling.
Then in the reign of James II an advance was made by the spur-like projection of the bowl, which was found to be convenient for the purpose of branding with the initials of the maker or his trade mark, and there are many examples of old marks, some of which are very curious, a not uncommon form being a punning rebus on the maker's name; thus we have a gauntlet, used by a man named Gauntlet.
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