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

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

From The Thousandth Woman by Ernest W. Hornung

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

No use attempting to burke what is open secret.

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

It has been said that in the delays in bringing forward this subject, I have been anxious to burke discussion.

From Indian speeches (1907-1909) by John Morley

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Cynthia wanted to come, but Mrs. Devar had evidently burked the excursion.

From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Louis Tracy

Between you and Mr. Theydon, the work of my department has been hindered and burked most scandalously.

From Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy

I’ve tried to get something out of Murad, but my messengers have failed; but all the same, I feel sure he knows all about it, and burked Arthur for a reason of his own.”

From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn

No, Mas’r Harry, I don’t; but I feel quite sure as they’ve burked him, and got him away with them bars of gold.

From The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn

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

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

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

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