All 50 Uses of
bronze
in
The House of Hades
- A Celestial bronze cannon rose.†
p. 3..1
- Leo fiddled with the bronze Archimedes sphere that he'd installed on the console—his newest and most dangerous toy.†
p. 7..8
- Her Celestial bronze dagger was missing—the weapon she'd carried since she was seven years old.†
p. 41..4
- His blade swept over her head in a glowing bronze arc.†
p. 50..4
- Riptide's Celestial bronze blade glowed even brighter in the gloom of Tartarus.†
p. 50..7
- Sure enough, five women staggered along on mismatched legs—mechanical bronze on the left, shaggy and cloven-hooved on the right.†
p. 55..5
- Around her neck hung a strange bronze-and-emerald pendant, like a circular labyrinth.†
p. 63..5
- Looming over them was a huge bronze statue of a buck-naked Neptune.†
p. 79..9
- He sensed Celestial bronze gears, magical levers, springs, and pistons.†
p. 80..6
- Like a magician producing a rabbit, he pulled out the Archimedes sphere and began tinkering with the ancient bronze dials.†
p. 82..6
- One was an old bronze navigation device, like an astrolabe from a ship.†
p. 92..3
- They shuffled on their mismatched bronze and donkey legs, hissing and fighting with each other, apparently in no hurry to reach the Doors of Death.†
p. 97..5
- "Nico, please tell me she's doing that death-trance thing, like you did in the bronze jar."†
p. 136..8
- He tapped the keyboards and the screens woke up, displaying a Web site in maroon and gold, with a picture of a happy farmer in a toga and a John Deere cap, standing with his bronze scythe in a field of wheat.†
p. 140..4
- Riptide's ink glowed Celestial bronze.†
p. 172..4
- After entering the storm front, they plodded on for what seemed like hours, relying on the light of Percy's Celestial bronze blade, and on Bob, who glowed faintly in the dark like some sort of crazy janitor angel.†
p. 174..2
- Getting captured in Tartarus, being held prisoner in that bronze jar, watching Percy and Annabeth fall ….†
p. 192..9
- Through a fog of pain, she heard the ship's figurehead, Festus the bronze dragon, creaking in alarm and shooting fire.†
p. 194..4
- The rocket fire had extinguished, though smoking bronze exhaust vents still jutted from the stern.†
p. 199..9
- His bronze armor glinted.†
p. 202..3
- Celestial bronze ammunition.†
p. 211..6
- Percy's voice disintegrated like someone had hit it with a Celestial bronze blade.†
p. 232..7
- Since they'd rescued him from the bronze jar in Rome, Nico had slept very little and eaten even less, as if he were still subsisting on those emergency pomegranate seeds from the Underworld.†
p. 264..2
- At his side, the angel carried the same kind of jagged bronze sword the Boreads had, and Jason's last encounter with them hadn't gone so well.
p. 270..5bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- The winged man from the ice cream stand was leaning against a nearby column, casually tossing a small bronze hoop in the air.†
p. 276..5
- Favonius spun the bronze hoop on his index finger.†
p. 277..8
- Favonius tossed his bronze hoop in the air.†
p. 283..0
- Piper felt his defenses going up, like he was curling into a psychological ball, the way he'd gone into a death trance in that bronze jar.†
p. 319..6
- The bronze shields along the rails popped like over-pressurized soda cans.†
p. 326..4
- Behind her stood her brothers—two young men with purple-feathered wings, stark white hair, and jagged swords of Celestial bronze.†
p. 327..9
- She had vague memories of Leo tinkering around inside the dragon's bronze skull, mumbling about a control disk; but even if Piper could make it to the prow, she would have no idea what she was doing.†
p. 332..9
- His bronze scales were cold.†
p. 339..9
- In the light of his bronze sword, her face was beautiful.
p. 347..4 *bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- Across her knees lay an ancient shield—a battered circle of wood and bronze, painted with the likeness of Akhlys herself holding a shield, so the image seemed to go on forever, smaller and smaller.†
p. 350..1
- More bronze wires shot from the orb, intuitively sensing what Leo needed.†
p. 366..6
- The bronze surface was searing hot, but Leo didn't care.†
p. 369..0
- On the right were neat beds of vegetables and herbs, arranged like spokes around a big sparkling fountain where bronze satyrs spewed water into a central bowl.†
p. 374..5
- The tops were fitted with a bronze rod that held silky white curtains.†
p. 374..9
- He remembered the old bronze astrolabe he'd picked up in Bologna—the one the dwarfs told him Odysseus had made.†
p. 382..9
- Excited, Leo dug through the mulch until he saw the glint of bronze.†
p. 384..1
- Leo found a handful of wires, a few bent gears, a piston that might still work, and several hammered sheets of Celestial bronze—the smallest the size of a drink coaster, the largest the size of a war shield.†
p. 384..4
- Once that was done, he began to recast the Celestial bronze scraps.†
p. 385..0
- Each day his hammer rang on bronze until his rock anvil broke, or his tongs beat, or he ran out of firewood.†
p. 385..1
- Bronze bulls, girl!†
p. 386..2
- One of the bronze satyrs had gotten turned sideways and the water pressure was off, so it started making an annoying ticking sound, jiggling up and down, and spewing water over the rim of the pool.†
p. 387..7
- He looked at the bronze mirror, which he'd just finished wiring up to the Archimedes sphere.†
p. 388..3
- The bronze plate sparked.†
p. 389..1
- He forced his eyes back to the bronze mirror.†
p. 390..1
- He trotted up and down the ranks, his plumed helmet gleaming, his legs decked in bronze greaves.†
p. 390..5
- Then the bronze mirror went dark.†
p. 392..6