indurate
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When indurate Premier Poincare came into office, international conferences went out of fashion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes human beings do things that are too much for even the most indurate newsgatherers of the daily press to contemplate without shuddering.
From Time Magazine Archive
When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imogen was deaf to their expostulations, and indurate and callous as adamant to their persuasions.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William
But they are all thrown in at once and used incessantly, and they thus overpower and indurate the ear, without presenting any picture to the mind, to which the ear is the passage.
From Great Italian and French Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
Both indurated by early Nintendo gaming and an inherited tradition of rote replication duplicated many orthodox video gaming tropes.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2018
This has become a matter of indurated faith, resistant to any insert of mere fact.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he and Leger, saying nothing, proceeded to the creek with the heavy bucket and a big indurated basin.
From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold
They all seemed231 hearty and healthy, and their indurated hands were the best diploma of their industry.
Sclē′rous, hard or indurated: ossified or bony; Sclērur′ine, having stiff, hard tail-feathers, as a bird of the genus Sclerurus.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.
From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Why should any one go through an indurating process?
From Queechy, Volume II by Warner, Susan
In moulding pulp into articles of manufacture, satisfactory machines have been invented, not only for the mere forming them into shape, but for water-proofing and indurating the same.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
Flowering glume papery-membranaceous, dry and sometimes indurating with age, rounded or flattish on the back, 5–many-nerved, scarious at the entire blunt summit.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
The indurating effects of a selfish religiosity never withered her soul nor narrowed it.
From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore
