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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

Yet was the heart of Pharaoh hard and so indurate that he would not do as God bade.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells

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 George Lillie Craik

Both indurated by early Nintendo gaming and an inherited tradition of rote replication duplicated many orthodox video gaming tropes.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2018

This has become a matter of indurated faith, resistant to any insert of mere fact.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a cloth, which was a thing he did not possess, on the table, and his simple crockery, which shone absolutely white, and his indurated ware made a neat display.

From A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss

In certain parts of the tropics tortoises protect themselves from the excessive heat by burrowing into the soil which afterwards becomes indurated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

Miss Merril, finding the crockery kept for charterers mostly smashed, had apparently come upon Valentine's enameled and indurated ware.

From Thrice Armed by Harold Bindloss

Flowering glume papery-membranaceous, dry and sometimes indurating with age, rounded or flattish on the back, 5–many-nerved, scarious at the entire blunt summit.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

In moulding pulp into articles of manufacture, satisfactory machines have been invented, not only for the mere forming them into shape, but for water-proofing and indurating the same.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

And this cruel idea of self-sacrifice was, no doubt, completing the indurating process.

From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Released from the indurating business of daily chores and the calculations of house-keeping, and placidly secure in a miser's infatuation, she lived an almost effortless emotional existence.

From Command by William McFee

Their feet, too, were bare, but small and well-formed, betraying little indurating familiarity with the rough paths around them.

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen