indurate

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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 indurate Premier Poincare came into office, international conferences went out of fashion.

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

Even where there is no plastering, the tattooing may be found to indurate the skin, and to render it less sensible to cold.

From John Rutherford, the White Chief by Craik, George Lillie

Haste hapless sighs! and let your burning breath Dissolve the ice of her indurate heart!

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)