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

Even where there is no plastering, the tattooing may be found to indurate the skin, and to render it less sensible to cold.

From John Rutherford, the White Chief by Craik, George Lillie

I shall so indurate the heart of Pharaoh that he shall follow you, and all the Egyptians, and I shall be glorified in Pharaoh, and in all his host, his carts and horsemen.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.