All 20 Uses
bronze
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Red: The Heroic Rescue
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- This isn't a ten-foot sickle or a bronze sword.
Chpt 13bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- A Council member lifted two heavy bronze swords from the floor by his stool and set them on the stage.
Chpt 18 *
- He needed cop-per and tin, which when mixed would form bronze, a metal strong enough for swords.†
Chpt 1
- He still wasn't sure if the material from which he'd fashioned the first sword was actually bronze, but it was soft enough to sharpen and hard enough to cut off a man's head with a single blow.†
Chpt 1
- They brought their first major campaign up the Natalga Gap armed with new weapons, bronze weapons: long swords and sharp sickles and large balls swinging from chains.†
Chpt 1
- Then their crest, the bronzed serpentine bat.†
Chpt 3
- We make bronze weapons now.†
Chpt 6
- They descended on the cliffs with a vengeance, swinging with bronze mallets and swords and granite boulders.†
Chpt 7
- The sulfur caked the bronze bowls into which they had poured it.†
Chpt 7
- Thomas withdrew his flint wheel, a device that made sparks by striking flint against a rough bronze wheel.†
Chpt 7
- Rachelle crossed to the table, snatched up the braided bronze bracelet Thomas had made for her, and slid it up her arm, above the elbow where She saw the blood on her arm, a dark red smear that had dried.†
Chpt 12
- Bronze statues of winged serpents with ruby eyes seemed to occupy every corner.†
Chpt 12
- A long mat set with bronze goblets and a tall chalice sat in the center of what could only be Qurong's dining room.†
Chpt 12
- Bronze struck bronze.†
Chpt 12
- Bronze struck bronze.†
Chpt 12
- A large bronze pendant of the Shataiki hung from his neck.†
Chpt 12
- Musty Tall bronze candlesticks stood on the floor in a semicircle, unlit.†
Chpt 12
- But these trunks were banded by bronze straps.†
Chpt 12
- Thomas dove for the bronze pole.†
Chpt 12
- People were dressed for the celebration-light-colored tunics accessorized with hair flowers and bronze bracelets and tin headbands.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(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) tinBronze 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. -
(2)
(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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(3)
(bronze as in: her bronze is on display) something made of the brownish metal with the same name -- such as a sculpture (statue) or a third place medal
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)