indurate
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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
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
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 George T. (George Titus) Ferris
Imogen was deaf to their expostulations, and indurate and callous as adamant to their persuasions.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by William Godwin
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
Education takes the individual while he is relatively plastic, before he has become so indurated by isolated experiences as to be rendered hopelessly empirical in his habit of mind.
From How We Think by John Dewey
To the touch they are characteristically indurated, and suggest the hardness of small shot imbedded in the skin.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Such glands rarely suppurate or undergo a necrotic degeneration; sometimes they become permanently indurated.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Released from the indurating business of daily chores and the calculations of house-keeping, and placidly secure in a miser's infatuation, she lived an almost effortless emotional existence.
From Command by William McFee
Contact with the world is an indurating process; I really did not know how hard I had grown, until I felt my heart soften at sight of you.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
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
If such accumulations gather and are changed into hard rock by pressure and other indurating agencies they make typical breccias.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.
From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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