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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.

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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.

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V. render hard &c. adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify; accrust†.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

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

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.

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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

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

The eminences about Harmony are of secondary formation, with a basis of limestone, and upon that, strata of sandstone, clay-slate and indurated clay.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

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

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

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

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