burke

Example Sentences

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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 Lang, Andrew

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

You cannot, beyond a certain limit of time, burke reality.

From The Free Press by Belloc, Hilaire

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

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