Example Sentences

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It is Cambridge men who correct themselves, and begin again at every half-sentence, and, moreover, will pun, and refine too much, and swerve from the matter to the expression.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He will pun in the most reckless manner at all times.

From Frank Merriwell's Races by Standish, Burt L.