burke

Better perhaps not to burke the matter that she knew was on his mind.

From The Thousandth Woman by Ernest W. Hornung

He added: "The Government ... has no disposition or desire to burke the question; it is clearly an issue on which the new House ought to be given an opportunity to express its views."

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper

Little joy would you have had in most that has befallen since the Reform Bill was passed, to the chivalrous cry of "burke Sir Walter."

From Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang

There is no need for me to burke the words.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

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 John Charles Dent

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

From Time Magazine Archive

No, Mas’r Harry, I don’t; but I feel quite sure as they’ve burked him, and got him away with them bars of gold.

From The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn

‘There,’ says I to the people, ‘don’t you make no mistake: I ain’t burked the gent as took it into his head to dress up and come to see—’ But there!

From A Little World by George Manville Fenn

I am sorry to say that, stenographically speaking, I burked Isaiah, and contented myself with the long-hand abbreviation, Is., and as to the text itself, I thought the first three words would suffice.

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews

Cynthia wanted to come, but Mrs. Devar had evidently burked the excursion.

From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Louis Tracy

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 Harley Granville-Barker

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

For there is no burking the truth that in many respects the American woman carries about her a peculiar charm ungranted as yet to her European sisters.

From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Grant Allen

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

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