burked

• “He put away -- "burked" -- the Directors letter, and went in to talk to Riley, who was as ungracious as usual, and fretting himself over the way the bank would run during his illness.”

  Plain Tales from the Hills

• “As has been related, Cibber's alteration of "King John," which had been "burked" in 1736-7, was produced, from patriotic motives, in 1745.”

  An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II

• “It was infamous in him, they now say, to have your letters 'burked' in the post office, as it appears from”

  The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States.

• “Except for burked women praising Allah for yet another boy named .....”

  John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...

• “If, say, his partner was there to watch and NBC burked the story, that would be wrong...”

  "The only openly gay male athlete in Beijing pulled off one of the great upsets at the Olympics in a spectacular fashion."

• “I received two; one had been opened and read by somebody else, and one, as it afterwards turned out, had been burked at home before forwarding.”

  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton

• “ The battle began to coalesce into two lines, one of red jacketed troopers and one of brown burked attackers.”

  Lord Conrads Crusade

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

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

• “Even the Cholera does not menace 'a gentleman of the better ranks; 'and no bodies are burked with a decent suit of clothes on their backs.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832

• “There had been dark rumours of a terrible scandal, a prosecution burked by strong personal influence, mysterious paragraphs in the papers, and the disappearance of the name of Hatherly Bell from the rank of great medical jurists.”

  The Crimson Blind

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