burke
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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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
There seems to have been a strong determination on the part of the Government to burke the investigation.
From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles
You cannot, beyond a certain limit of time, burke reality.
From The Free Press by Belloc, Hilaire
I'm no' gaun to burke ye the nicht; but I canna sleep; I'm sair misdoubtful o' the thing.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas
Better perhaps not to burke the matter that she knew was on his mind.
From The Thousandth Woman by Hornung, Ernest W.
They burked the challenge then; their half measures of diplomatic ostracism only strengthened Franco with his own people.
From Time Magazine Archive
They burked the fact that they possessed plot-letters alleged to be by Logan.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Lang, Andrew
Or a rumour may be burked, or "hushed up."
From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)
Here, then, are two parallels to Fisher's ghost, and very hard on psychical science it is that ghostly evidence should be deliberately burked through the prejudices of lawyers.
From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Lang, Andrew
He was far too shrewd to go straight back to the topic burked by his own error.
From The Stowaway Girl by Tracy, Louis
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 Tracy, Louis
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 Loudon, Margracia
Well, of course, if Farrant chooses to insult Percival so gratuitously by burking his message to us....
From Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Granville-Barker, Harley
But there is an Ulster difficulty, and no amount of burking it will solve it.
From The Insurrection in Dublin by Stephens, James
You don’t suppose as I’m giving up my respectable business of a nat’ralist to go in for burking and doctor’s work, do you?
From A Little World by Fenn, George Manville
