indurate

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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

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 his friends asked him, after this first interview, what he thought of the Queen, he gave her credit for "a proud mind, a crafty wit, and an indurate heart."

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George

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