All 50 Uses of
bronze
in
The Lost Hero
- She stood in back of the chariot with Leo and Jason, while the bald guy, Butch, handled the reins, and the blond girl, Annabeth, adjusted a bronze navigation device.
Chpt 3bronze = made of a type of metal
- Apparently kids fell into the lake a lot, because a detail of campers ran up with big bronze leaf blower–looking things and blasted Piper with hot air; and in about two seconds her clothes were dry.
Chpt 3
- Even our best weapons, Celestial bronze, will pass right through them unless you can catch them by surprise.
Chpt 4bronze = a type of metal
- It's modified to shoot Celestial bronze, so it only kills monsters.
Chpt 4
- It was white marble with big columns out front and polished bronze doors emblazoned with lightning bolts.
Chpt 4bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- It was about sixty feet long, snout to tail, its body made of interlocking bronze plates.
Chpt 12 *bronze = a type of metal
- Their bronze swords were jagged, like icicles.
Chpt 18bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- Next to that was a dented bronze breastplate pitted with corrosion —acid, maybe?
Chpt 28
- She picked up a burned and stained bronze breastplate and held it up for Piper to see.
Chpt 39
- The sheath was worn black leather, bound in bronze.†
Chpt 4
- When she unsheathed it, she found a triangular blade eighteen inches long—bronze gleaming like it had been polished yesterday.†
Chpt 4
- At the goddess's feet, a fire burned in a bronze brazier.†
Chpt 4
- The bronze frame had a built-in game station at the footboard, a stereo system in the headboard, a glass-door refrigerator mounted into the base, and a whole bunch of control panels running down the side.†
Chpt 5
- The building sat at the edge of a stream, with several waterwheels turning a series of bronze gears.†
Chpt 6
- Even with Celestial bronze—".†
Chpt 6
- They passed a couple of guys making a bronze windup toy.†
Chpt 6
- It's a bronze dragon," Nyssa said.†
Chpt 6
- You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?†
Chpt 6
- On the highest gable, a bronze eagle weathervane spun in the wind and pointed straight in his direction, as if telling him to turn around.†
Chpt 7
- At the top of the Big House, the weathervane was still pointing his direction, that bronze eagle glaring as if to say, Turn around, kid, while you still can.†
Chpt 7
- A third ran to the side of the amphitheater and grabbed a bronze three-legged stool, like they'd been trained for this duty.†
Chpt 10
- But Leo looked closely, and in the dim light of the stars and his handheld fire, he could see the glint of metal beneath the dirt and leaves—a bronze net lining the entire crater.†
Chpt 12
- Six large strips of bronze stretched out from the vat like the spokes of a wheel.†
Chpt 12
- It's a trap, bronze brain," Leo said.†
Chpt 12
- The walls were carved with alcoves, each holding a bronze brazier or a golden eagle statue on a marble pedestal.†
Chpt 14
- Under that, the poster showed the leading man—a three-quarters shot of bare-chested bronze flesh, with ripped pectorals and six-pack abs.†
Chpt 15
- Sure enough, there he was, sitting atop a giant bronze death machine and grinning like a lunatic.†
Chpt 16
- It glistened in the morning sun like a living penny sculpture —different shades of copper and bronze—a sixty-foot-long serpent with steel talons and drill-bit teeth and glowing ruby eyes.†
Chpt 16
- Piper looked at the bronze dragon wings shining against the sky, and those talons that could've shredded her to pieces.†
Chpt 16
- He leaned forward against the warm bronze of the dragon's neck, and closed his eyes.†
Chpt 17
- His bronze plating stacked together.†
Chpt 18
- Leo grabbed the handle of his bronze dragon suitcase.†
Chpt 18
- Far below she saw city lights glimmering in the early dawn, and several hundred yards away the body of the bronze dragon spinning out of control, its wings limp, fire flickering in its mouth like a badly wired lightbulb.†
Chpt 22
- Her image flickered, and Jason saw armor under her simple black robes, a goatskin cloak—the symbol of a Roman warrior—across her bronze mantle.†
Chpt 25
- Piper sat behind him on the bronze dragon, holding his waist to keep him balanced.†
Chpt 25
- Bronze dragon ain't exactly a stealth plane.†
Chpt 26
- Hot enough to melt Celestial bronze or Imperial gold.†
Chpt 28
- For the first time, Piper noticed two large bronze sundials —each about the size of a trampoline—inlaid on the marble tile floor to the north and south of the fountain.†
Chpt 28
- Before Jason could go after her, the giant bronze sundials at either end of the fountain swung open.†
Chpt 28
- The stained glass ceiling splintered in a rain of multicolored shards, and Festus the bronze dragon dropped into the department store.†
Chpt 28
- The bronze dragon flapped his mighty wings, snatched the two cages with the satyr and the storm spirits in his claws, and began to ascend.†
Chpt 28
- Hephaestus pointed to the nearest worktable, where a shiny bronze mirror showed a hazy image of Leo asleep on the dragon's back.†
Chpt 29
- Now, looking at that bronze mirror, Leo thought about his dad watching his progress over the years, even his stupid science experiments.†
Chpt 29
- The dragon's wings flapped once, but Leo caught a whiff of burning bronze.†
Chpt 30
- Immediately a turret popped up from the brick wall and a beam of pure heat incinerated the bronze plating to ashes.†
Chpt 30
- Gold, bronze, steel—none of these are any good against my wolves, son of Jupiter.†
Chpt 34
- Leo chimed in to add the important stuff: how he'd fixed the bronze dragon, could throw fireballs, and made excellent tacos.†
Chpt 35
- Bronze walls marched all the way around the fortress grounds, though Jason couldn't imagine who would possibly attack this place.†
Chpt 37
- He slipped his hands into his tool belt and started summoning supplies—gears, a tiny wrench, some strips of bronze.†
Chpt 41
- He could use a fire-breathing bronze dragon right now.†
Chpt 41
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