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
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
Young girls therefore, were trained to repress their feelings, to indurate their nerves, to manipulate weapons,—especially the long-handled sword called nagi-nata, so as to be able to hold their own against unexpected odds.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
Ah, thankless! canst thou envy him who gains The Stoic's cold and indurate repose?
From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Anna Seward
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
Stamens borne on the throat of the indurated 5-cleft and pointless 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
"What guarantee have we that our present 'intuitions' have more validity than hundreds of past ideas that have shown themselves by passing away to be empty opinion or indurated prejudice?"
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
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
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
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
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
