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There is no disposition here to burke the fact that these responsibilities are serious, if not onerous; that they call for administrative statesmanship of a very high order.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox

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 Thomas Hughes

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

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

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

From The Thousandth Woman by Ernest W. Hornung

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Louis Tracy

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

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

The Mahmal was burked this year, and the fair at Tantah forbidden. 

From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross

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

"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

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

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

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