burke

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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 Harper, Ida Husted

I'm no' gaun to burke ye the nicht; but I canna sleep; I'm sair misdoubtful o' the thing.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas

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 Dent, John Charles

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 Lang, Andrew

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)