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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain Tales from the Hills] Reference

It was infamous in him, they now say, to have your letters 'burked' in the post office, as it appears from.    From Wordnik.com.  [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.] Reference

As has been related, Cibber's alteration of "King John," which had been "burked" in 1736-7, was produced, from patriotic motives, in 1745.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II] Reference

The dean especially would have burked it at once had he suspected its existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference

If, say, his partner was there to watch and NBC burked the story, that would be wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The only openly gay male athlete in Beijing pulled off one of the great upsets at the Olympics in a spectacular fashion."] Reference

We feel a devout conviction that Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs would have burked Goldsmith!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference

 The battle began to coalesce into two lines, one of red jacketed troopers and one of brown burked attackers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Conrads Crusade]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference

I am sure that present Royalty would neither be boycotted nor burked.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life as an Author]

He was far too shrewd to go straight back to the topic burked by his own error.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stowaway Girl] Reference

'You don't mean to say he was burked, Sam?' said Mr. Pickwick, looking hastily round.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

Registrar to the Court of Admiralty, and burked a parliamentary inquiry into reversions generally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sydney Smith]

Between you and Mr. Theydon, the work of my department has been hindered and burked most scandalously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Number Seventeen] Reference

But this proposal by no means suited his ardent backers-up, who looked upon the whole affair as providential, and by no means to be burked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities] Reference

Up till then there was a lingering suspicion at the back of my mind, that after all I might have throttled Cumshaw by mistake, but the feel of that straight hair completely burked the last of my doubts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Valley] Reference

Darwinian theory in the existence of this widespread primordial life; the latter as a case in which a new theory had been systematically burked, for fear of damaging the infallibility of Darwin, who had propounded a different theory of coral reefs!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

President "wisely announced in limine that none who had not valid arguments to bring forward on one side or the other would be allowed to address the meeting; a caution that proved necessary, for no fewer than four combatants had their utterances burked by him, because of their indulgence in vague declamation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference

The President "wisely announced in limine that none who had not valid arguments to bring forward on one side or the other would be allowed to address the meeting; a caution that proved necessary, for no fewer than four combatants had their utterances burked by him, because of their indulgence in vague declamation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley]

"Like before, they probably burked, smothered, and strangled her sometime around midnight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 5th Horseman]

‘You don’t mean to say he was burked, Sam?’ said Mr. Pickwick, looking hastily round.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference

“Now, madam, wasn’t it simply that the sensation of this little quarrel was too precious to be burked?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spoon] Reference

Alethea would succeed in spite of the Professor's burked report) -- they would fall in their own hearts and in one another's eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quisanté] Reference

I was a pretty safe bet to skyhoot her off to Diomedes, where she as an inconvenient witness and I as an inconvenient investigator could be burked in a way that'd maximize trouble. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]

So someone held her down and burked her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 5th Horseman]

"I'm gonna say she was burked, " Claire told me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 5th Horseman]

They burked and suppressed every inquiry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War in the Air] Reference

The question cannot be burked much longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trade Union Woman] Reference

Powers burked this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle] Reference