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
Pharaoh was so indurate and hard-hearted that he would not let them go, and bade Moses that he should no more come in his sight.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
Yet was he so indurate that he would not let them go, but would that they should make their sacrifice to God in that land.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
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
I percussed the abdomen and found an enormously enlarged and indurated spleen, reaching beyond the navel and pushing up the thoracic viscera.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
There was a cloth, which was a thing he did not possess, on the table, and his simple crockery, which shone absolutely white, and his indurated ware made a neat display.
From A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss
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 Asa Gray
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
Why should any one go through an indurating process?
From Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner
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
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
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
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