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

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

Imogen was deaf to their expostulations, and indurate and callous as adamant to their persuasions.

From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William

The lessons of adversity are not always salutary—sometimes they soften and amend, but as often they indurate and pervert.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron