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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

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

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

You cannot, beyond a certain limit of time, burke reality.

From The Free Press by Hilaire Belloc

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

From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy

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

‘There,’ says I to the people, ‘don’t you make no mistake: I ain’t burked the gent as took it into his head to dress up and come to see—’ But there!

From A Little World by George Manville Fenn

They burked the fact that Sprot confessed all these, with one or, perhaps, two exceptions, to be forgeries by himself. 

From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang

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

From The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephens

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

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

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