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burke
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Burke is the protagonist of the Burke Series , a series of 18 crime novels written by Andrew Vachss . An anti-hero , Burke is a career criminal, an orphan raised by the State who was abused throughout his childhood in state institutions and foster homes ...
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n. (context British slang English) Variant spelling of berk. vb. 1 (context UK slang English) To murder in the same manner as Burke, to kill by suffocation 2 (context UK slang historical English) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order ...
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Burke \Burke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Burking .] [From one Burke of Edinburgh, who committed the crime in 1829.] To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for ...
Usage examples of burke.
Burke took a fragment of nopal-stuff, tried to form it, but in the hands of his analogue the stuff was tough and refractory.
Burke reached forth with his analogue hands, broke one of the fibrils.
Burke will always be read with delight and edification, because in the midst of discussions on the local and the accidental, he scatters apophthegms that take us into the regions of lasting wisdom.
Tyrone Burke stood near a shut door into a farther attic, almost hidden in the shadows of the great beams, his pistol trained on the rest of the occupants of the dim-lit room: Dominique, Rose, the quadroon maid, and Laurene Houx, all gathered around the unconscious Vivienne.
These seemed perhaps the least of his accomplishments: he was also a poet, a jurist, a polyhistor, a classicist, and an indefatigable scholar whose powers would recommend him to such as Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Burke, William Pitt, and Samuel Johnson.
Mrs Burke I decided that Eleanor and Mr Quayle would be glad of a change from foreign food, so we would have a roast beef dinner on the evening of their arrival.
Bresnahan showed the girl first the photograph of Pascal Burke, then Quintan Finn, Manus and Donal Frakes, Benny Carson, and finally Tim Tallon.
Still, considering the way Burke himself felt at their being close enough to touch, he always half-expected some slight reciprocatory sign -- perhaps a change of expression, the flutter of an eyelid, something.
I therefore concluded to despatch a reconnoissance in force, under Lieutenant-Colonel Burke, Eleventh Infantry, to harass the enemy and to retard its progress in every way.
Pam Rude Robinson, Kimi Morse Reist, Heather Hutton Kuyk, Jane Johnson Ricker, Joan Craft Laoulidi, Tracy Palmer Berns, Kimberly Burke Sweetman and Melissa Jurgens.
Scotty would lean toward the front seat to say something to Burke and his shirt would scooch up, revealing the muscular ridge cut from the middle of his back down to the elastic of his underwear.
Clyde Burke had been called in from the clothes closet to deliver the articles that he had written with a Cleveland date line, since he was supposed to be hunting Sheff out there.
Clyde Burke, had caused him to reject any connection between Sheff Hassell and the death of Don Tarkingham.
DESK CLERK at the Hotel Grandview demanded four pieces of ID, then returned Burke his checkbook and unbent sufficiently to warn him and Sarah that NOAA had put this part of the coast under a tornado watch.
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.