indurate

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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

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

But they are all thrown in at once and used incessantly, and they thus overpower and indurate the ear, without presenting any picture to the mind, to which the ear is the passage.

From Great Italian and French Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

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 Wells, Philip P.