All 11 Uses of
bronze
in
The Martian Chronicles
- Up and down green wine canals, boats as delicate as bronze flowers drifted.
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *bronze = reddish-brown or yellowish-brown
- The little town was full of people drifting in and out of doors, saying hello to one another, wearing golden masks and blue masks and crimson masks for pleasant variety, masks with silver lips and bronze eyebrows, masks that smiled or masks that frowned, according to the owners' dispositions.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)bronze = a brownish color (like the metal of the same name)
- In the living room of the old house it was cool, and a grandfather clock ticked high and long and bronzed in one corner.
Chpt 6 (definition 2)bronzed = coated with a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown metal that is made mostly of copper
- None of it flung down, no, but deposited gently and with feeling, with decorum, upon the dusty edges of the road, as if a whole city had walked here with hands full, at which time a great bronze trumpet had sounded, the articles had been relinquished to the quiet dust, and one and all, the inhabitants of the earth had fled straight up into the blue heavens.
Chpt 15 (definition 2)bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- Oiled, with tube bones cut from bronze and sunk in gelatin, the robots lay.
Chpt 17 (definition 2)bronze = a type of metal
- A bronze tube appeared in it.
Chpt 21 (definition 2)bronze = made of a type of metal
- She picked up the bronze tube.
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- One of the sand ships fell apart, the sail, the emerald body, the bronze hull points, the moon-white tiller, and all the separate images in it.
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- The Leader stood before Sam and Elma, his mask beaten of polished bronze,
Chpt 21 (definition 2) *bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- "Thank you, oh, thank you," said Sam to the bronze mask.
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- The attic brain which directed the pumps was shattered into bronze shrapnel on the beams.
Chpt 25 (definition 2)bronze = a type of metal
Definitions:
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(1) (bronze as in: a bronze tan) a reddish-brown or yellowish-brown color like that of one of the metals with the same name -- often used to refer to a suntan or a dark glowing complexion
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(2) (bronze as in: bronze won't corrode in salt water) a brownish-colored metal with red or yellow hues that is made of copper and (usually) tineditor's notes: Bronze metals in the Olympics and many other contests are awarded for third place.
With the discovery of bronze (about 3,000 BC), people could make tools and weapons that were harder and more durable than those made of copper and stone that preceded bronze.