burke

Example Sentences

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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 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

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

From The Thousandth Woman by Hornung, Ernest W.

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 Willcox, Cornélis de Witt

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

There must be no question of trying to shirk or burke it.

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry