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Burke

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Burke

Community in northern Virginia, 19 km/12 mi west of Alexandria, on Pohick Creek; population (1990) 57,700. It is a largely residential suburb of Washington DC.



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Burke can't use anything except a gun; and you can't write with that.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
There was Edmund Burke, one of the wisest men and greatest orators that ever the world produced.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Dollop wished to know what was; but there was a prevalent feeling in her audience that her opinion was a bulwark, and that if it were overthrown there would be no limits to the cutting-up of bodies, as had been well seen in Burke and Hare with their pitch-plaisters-- such a hanging business as that was not wanted in Middlemarch!
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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