indurate

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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.

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

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 Seward, Anna

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 Wells, Philip P.