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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

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

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

But all I see is the snow in the vernal sunshine dissolving,   And the waters no more delved from the indurate lake.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Then he and Leger, saying nothing, proceeded to the creek with the heavy bucket and a big indurated basin.

From Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss

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

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

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

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

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

Why should any one go through an indurating process?

From Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner