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
Yet was the heart of Pharaoh hard and so indurate that he would not do as God bade.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
I shall so indurate the heart of Pharaoh that he shall follow you, and all the Egyptians, and I shall be glorified in Pharaoh, and in all his host, his carts and horsemen.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
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
"What guarantee have we that our present 'intuitions' have more validity than hundreds of past ideas that have shown themselves by passing away to be empty opinion or indurated prejudice?"
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
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
There was a cloth, which was a thing he did not possess, on the table, and his simple crockery, which shone absolutely white, and his indurated ware made a neat display.
From A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss
And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.
From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Their feet, too, were bare, but small and well-formed, betraying little indurating familiarity with the rough paths around them.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
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 William Henry Doolittle
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 Asa Gray
The indurating effects of a selfish religiosity never withered her soul nor narrowed it.
From Old Familiar Faces by Theodore Watts-Dunton
