indurate
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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 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
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 Philip P. Wells
Haste hapless sighs! and let your burning breath Dissolve the ice of her indurate heart!
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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
Clunch, klunsh, n. the miner's name for tough indurated clay, sometimes found in the coal-measures.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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
They all seemed231 hearty and healthy, and their indurated hands were the best diploma of their industry.
The indurating effects of a selfish religiosity never withered her soul nor narrowed it.
From Old Familiar Faces by Theodore Watts-Dunton
And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.
From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Why should any one go through an indurating process?
From Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner
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
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
