indurate
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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
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
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 Wells, Philip P.
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 Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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
Calyx-tube top-shaped, contracted at the throat, beset with hooked bristles above, indurated in fruit and enclosing the 2 achenes; the limb 5-cleft, closed after flowering.
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 Gray, Asa
Achene obtusely triangular, partly 3-celled, enclosed in the indurated calyx.
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 Gray, Asa
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 Dewey, John
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 Gray, Asa
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 Bowen, Sue Petigru
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 McFee, William
Why should any one go through an indurating process?
From Queechy, Volume II by Warner, Susan
The indurating effects of a selfish religiosity never withered her soul nor narrowed it.
From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore
