burke
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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
Better perhaps not to burke the matter that she knew was on his mind.
From The Thousandth Woman by Ernest W. Hornung
He has never been known to burke a school.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
There must be no question of trying to shirk or burke it.
From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
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
They burked the challenge then; their half measures of diplomatic ostracism only strengthened Franco with his own people.
From Time Magazine Archive
One or two motions for amnesty were burked by the previous question.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
They burked the fact that Sprot confessed all these, with one or, perhaps, two exceptions, to be forgeries by himself.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
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 Andrew Lang
Cynthia wanted to come, but Mrs. Devar had evidently burked the excursion.
From Cynthia's Chauffeur 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
But there is an Ulster difficulty, and no amount of burking it will solve it.
From The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephens
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
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 George Manville Fenn
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
