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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

The lessons of adversity sometimes soften and ——, but as often they indurate and pervert.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

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 George Lillie Craik

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

The neck of the sac is often thickened, indurated and adherent to surrounding parts, the result of chronic inflammation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

The river in its section of the plain, as far as Bloody Fall, presents alternately cliffs of reddish sandstone, and red-coloured slaty indurated clay or marl, and shelving white clay banks.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell

The fifteen years lad was thick set and sturdy, and stood his ground well, but he was no match for the man of more toughened frame and indurated muscle.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks

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

The indurating effects of a selfish religiosity never withered her soul nor narrowed it. 

From Old Familiar Faces by Theodore Watts-Dunton

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

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