burke

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

From The Free Press by Hilaire Belloc

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

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

From The Thousandth Woman by Ernest W. Hornung

No use attempting to burke what is open secret.

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Hope you havn't burked your appetites, gentlemen, so as not to be able to do justice to them—smell high—werry good—gamey, in fact.

From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

‘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

I am sure that present Royalty would neither be boycotted nor burked.

From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

We feel a devout conviction that Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs would have burked Goldsmith!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

Well, of course, if Farrant chooses to insult Percival so gratuitously by burking his message to us....

From Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker

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

Any tax, therefore, levied on those who have neither land nor money is a crying injustice, except, indeed," he added with bitter irony, "we admit of a small pole-tax to keep down burking.

From Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 1 of 3) by Margracia Loudon

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

"I'm not even allowed to weed my own garden now," John thought, burking the point at issue; and his disillusionment became so profound that he actually invited Harold to go for a walk with him.

From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie