Punch's rivals were not slow to twit him on his defeat, especially the "Puppet Show" and "The Man in the Moon," the latter of which, in a comic report of the proceedings at the "Licensing Committee for Poets," remarked, "Mr. Alfred Bunn was bitterly opposed on personal grounds by a person named Punch; but Mr. Bunn having intimated his wish to have a Word with Punch, the latter skulked out of court, and was not heard of afterwards."
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
Is it kind to twit your father- She protested more impatiently still.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day
But he remembered that he was out of debt,-that Meredith, would twit him no more,-and he began to whistle, so light-hearted, that no amount of money could have made him happier.
"The Crofton Boys"
Harriet Martineau