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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

Moses and Aaron showed all these signs and plagues tofore Pharaoh, and his heart was so indurate that he would not let them depart.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells

The lessons of adversity are not always salutary—sometimes they soften and amend, but as often they indurate and pervert.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

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

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

In certain parts of the tropics tortoises protect themselves from the excessive heat by burrowing into the soil which afterwards becomes indurated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 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

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

And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.

From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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

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

Why should any one go through an indurating process?

From Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner