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I was punning scurvily with Sir Andrew Fountaine and Lord Pembroke this evening: do you ever pun now?

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

On this whole scene Landor remarks that "the first overt crime of the refractory angels was punning"; and adds, with true Miltonic conciseness, "they fell rapidly after that."

From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

And either I knew the name that I was punning on, or else I did not know it.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

“And I’ve been more agreeably seat-uated too,” cried Peter, with a glance behind him, which almost cost him the seat he was punning about.

From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon