burke

Example Sentences

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No use attempting to burke what is open secret.

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

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)

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

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

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