burke

No use attempting to burke what is open secret.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892 by Various

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

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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He had been sure then, and he was sure now, that Ministers desired to burke the question, to deceive the people, to produce a bill that should be no bill.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope

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

From The Free Press by Hilaire Belloc

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But this proposal by no means suited his ardent backers-up, who looked upon the whole affair as providential, and by no means to be burked.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey

And she had burked the revolution—betrayed it, I suppose—and the consequences did not ensue, and Halderschrodt and all the rest of them were left high and dry.

From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad

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

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

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

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

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

"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 Compton MacKenzie