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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

There is no need for me to burke the words.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

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

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 John Charles Dent

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

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

Even the Cholera does not menace 'a gentleman of the better ranks;' and no bodies are burked with a decent suit of clothes on their backs.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 by Various

Or a rumour may be burked, or "hushed up."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill

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

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

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

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

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

From The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephens

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