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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

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

Underneath these coherent and indurate ledges the most valuble ores exist, but coal and fossils are searched for in vain.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 by Various

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

The river in its section of the plain, as far as Bloody Fall, presents alternately cliffs of reddish sandstone, and red-coloured slaty indurated clay or marl, and shelving white clay banks.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell

The cervical glands are indurated all around the neck.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

Sclē′rous, hard or indurated: ossified or bony; Sclērur′ine, having stiff, hard tail-feathers, as a bird of the genus Sclerurus.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.

From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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

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

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