burke

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

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

Confound the greedy hypocrite!" said Bob; "does he think we shall let him burke the line for nothing?

From Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Look here—it's no use trying to burke facts.

From Scarhaven Keep by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Or to bring it directly home to Dickens, the following quotation will serve: "'You don't mean to say he was "burked," Sam?' said Mr. Pickwick."

From Dickens' London by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Macdonald's motion provoked charges of burking free discussion, and counter-charges of obstruction, want of patriotism and inclinations towards annexation.

From George Brown by John Lewis

But there is an Ulster difficulty, and no amount of burking it will solve it.

From The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephens

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

Well, of course, if Farrant chooses to insult Percival so gratuitously by burking his message to us....

From Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker

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