puns

Emma cried, and he tried to console her, adorning his protestations with puns.

He chatted with the landlady; and even told anecdotes interspersed with jokes and puns that Hippolyte did not understand.

Puns are the smallpox of the language;—we're cursed with an epidemic.

What puns have been made on the unhappy, because so obvious, ‘Oxon!’

I had thought to have written seriously, but I fancy I succeed best in epistles of mere fun; puns & that nonsense.

At all events we will live in Hope, said Jack, who was too fond of puns.

He considered the arguments of the last speaker paltry, and his puns beneath contempt.

In puns, and good puns too, this piece is particularly prolific.

As to puns in conversation, my only fear is that they are too generally indulged in.

Many names of inns have arisen from the puns on the landlord or locality.