burke
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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 Harper, Ida Husted
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
Better perhaps not to burke the matter that she knew was on his mind.
From The Thousandth Woman by Hornung, Ernest W.
You cannot, beyond a certain limit of time, burke reality.
From The Free Press by Belloc, Hilaire
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)
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 Fenn, George Manville
Or a rumour may be burked, or "hushed up."
From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)
Sir Charles's proposal was burked; but he had laid the powder, which was soon after fired and led to the successive explosions around the Parnell Commission.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
If luck favoured him he might set his own project on foot before the mayor’s messenger burked it by a civic order.
From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Tracy, Louis
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 Allain, Marcel
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 Allen, Grant
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
The burking of his cablegrams, made known by the Baron, was the last straw in an aggravated load.
From The Wheel O' Fortune by Tracy, Louis
"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 MacKenzie, Compton
