Burking

The claim made in the Observer that the 18th-century obstetricians, given that they obtained the corpses of the pregnant women that they experimented upon through "burking" - having people murdered to order - came as a shock to many medics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Smellie and Hunter were responsible for a series of 18th-century 'burking' murders of pregnant women, with a death total greater than the combined murders committed by Burke and Hare and Jack the Ripper," writes Don Shelton, a historian. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In spite of all this burking of crime, UP stands first in whole of India in terms of crime against dalits. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That became their MO, and the origin of the modern term "burking." ❋ Reichs, Kathy (2006)

When Bishop and Williams (no relation to the writer) were hanged for burking, i.e., murdering people in order to provide "subjects" for dissection, their bodies were sent to ❋ Various (N/A)

Looking at it so, it was plain that you were _suppressing_ the cameo -- burking it; since, once taken as you had taken it, it could never come to light again. ❋ Arthur Morrison (1904)

The burking of his cablegrams, made known by the Baron, was the last straw in an aggravated load. ❋ Louis Tracy (1895)

Where are the snows of yester-year; where is the animosity which in the years between the burking of the Conciliation Bill and the spring of 1914 grew up between the disinterested Reformers who wanted Woman enfranchised and the Liberal ministers who fought so doggedly, so unscrupulously, against such a rational completion of representative government? ❋ Harry Hamilton Johnston (1892)

For there is no burking the truth that in many respects the American woman carries about her a peculiar charm ungranted as yet to her European sisters. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

It may be very true that brevity is the soul of wit, but the leaders of science will generally succeed in burking new-born wit, unless the brevity of its soul is found compatible with a body of some bulk. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

Dickson, having accomplished his own ends, desired no further reform; and as for enquiry, he had excellent reasons for burking it, as it would probably lead to the disclosure of certain reprehensible transactions on the part of himself and Claus, the Indian agent. ❋ John Charles Dent (1864)

He joins the many in complaining that even the mention of "the love of God" is absent from Mohammed's theology, burking the fact that it never occurs in the Jewish scriptures and that the genius of Arabic, like Hebrew, does not admit the expression: worse still, he keeps from his reader such Koranic passages as, to quote no other, ❋ Anonymous (1855)

In some houses, I saw several foreigners; and in the days when burking was common, many of these unfortunates were made away with. ❋ Various (1841)

To be sure old Dr. J., like an immense featherbed, was _burking_ me, as the phrase now goes, during the whole time. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

"The impossibility of supply from random resurrections, taken with a careful analysis of events, and of 18th-century medical literature, shows compelling evidence for burking." ❋ Denis Campbell (2010)

I [made] my [first] [million] from burking. ❋ Indiana Guy (2015)

"Did [Kevin] just burke it?" "Yeah, I think he just [burked it]." "[What a bitch]." "Yeah" ❋ Nikka (2006)

"[Your mother's] party was [shit man]" "It was a fucking funeral you [burk]!" ❋ TJ Spargo (2008)

John- " Did you study for [today's] [test]?" Sam- "Nah, I'm [Burking it]." ❋ The Junk Munkie (2008)

Burks: Burks ❋ Kaboikei (2019)

[your such a] Burke ❋ Keatsdouats (2016)

He really [burked it] when he spilled coffee all over his [cubicle] wall. Or You dropped your [drinking bird] on the floor, and now there's a blue stain. You really burked it. ❋ Oatmeal Afficianado (2011)

Chris and [Sean] are taking turns playing [COD] Chris:[Why the fuck] did you knife when there was no one there Sean:Sorry Chris I burked again ❋ Burkey Mcburkeburke (2010)

"This orange [Aveo] is [burking] me on the 402, I can't get around it or the transport driving side by side." " I drive ultra slow in the ultra fast lane, while the people behind me are going insane! I'm an Asshole!" - [Dennis Leary] ❋ Burky78 (2012)

Watching him burke makes [me want] [to shit] in [a bag]. ❋ C_hamp (2007)