burke

Look here—it's no use trying to burke facts.

From Scarhaven Keep by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

There is no disposition here to burke the fact that these responsibilities are serious, if not onerous; that they call for administrative statesmanship of a very high order.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox

I think they used it first for Pethick Lawrence, that man who did so much to run the old militant suffragettes and burke the proper discussion of woman's future.

From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He had been sure then, and he was sure now, that Ministers desired to burke the question, to deceive the people, to produce a bill that should be no bill.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope

Confound the greedy hypocrite!" said Bob; "does he think we shall let him burke the line for nothing?

From Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

They burked the challenge then; their half measures of diplomatic ostracism only strengthened Franco with his own people.

From Time Magazine Archive

And she had burked the revolution—betrayed it, I suppose—and the consequences did not ensue, and Halderschrodt and all the rest of them were left high and dry.

From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad

But this proposal by no means suited his ardent backers-up, who looked upon the whole affair as providential, and by no means to be burked.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey

Or to bring it directly home to Dickens, the following quotation will serve: "'You don't mean to say he was "burked," Sam?' said Mr. Pickwick."

From Dickens' London by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Or a rumour may be burked, or "hushed up."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill

"I'm not even allowed to weed my own garden now," John thought, burking the point at issue; and his disillusionment became so profound that he actually invited Harold to go for a walk with him.

From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie

It was a singular fact that the really effective means of burking inquiry by the local authorities only occurred to Armathwaite's perplexed brain as he was hurrying back to the Grange.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy

Any tax, therefore, levied on those who have neither land nor money is a crying injustice, except, indeed," he added with bitter irony, "we admit of a small pole-tax to keep down burking.

From Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 1 of 3) by Margracia Loudon

The burking of his cablegrams, made known by the Baron, was the last straw in an aggravated load.

From The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy

I encounter a Vagualame disguised, who runs as if all the devils of hell were after him ... who makes off with extraordinary agility, whose presence of mind in burking pursuit is marvellous!...

From A Nest of Spies by Marcel Allain