All 45 Uses
bronze
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A Game of Thrones
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- Across the city on the hill of Rhaenys stood the blackened walls of the Dragonpit, its huge dome collapsing into ruin, its bronze doors closed now for a century.
p. 168.5bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- Eddard Stark rode through the towering bronze doors of the Red Keep sore, tired, hungry, and irritable.
p. 190.1 *
- Not until the pages had closed the great oak-and-bronze doors behind him did Sansa hear sounds again: soft voices, uneasy stirrings, the shuffle of papers from the council table.
p. 624.3bronze = made of a type of metal
- They came with bronze swords and great leathern shields, riding horses.
p. 738.1bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- He had the copper skin and dark almond eyes of a Dothraki, but his face was hairless and he wore the spiked bronze cap of the Unsullied.†
p. 35.6
- His collar, she noted, was ordinary bronze.†
p. 36.1
- His skin was the color of polished copper, his thick mustachios bound with gold and bronze rings.†
p. 37.6
- Men and women alike wore painted leather vests over bare chests and horsehair leggings cinched by bronze medallion belts, and the warriors greased their long braids with fat from the rendering pits.†
p. 101.5
- Drogo watched without expression, but his eyes followed their movements, and from time to time he would toss down a bronze medallion for the women to fight over.†
p. 102.6
- Most of all, she was afraid of what would happen tonight under the stars, when her brother gave her up to the hulking giant who sat drinking beside her with a face as still and cruel as a bronze mask.†
p. 103.5
- Magister Illyrio murmured a command, and four burly slaves hurried forward, bearing between them a great cedar chest bound in bronze.†
p. 104.2
- One egg was a deep green, with burnished bronze flecks that came and went depending on how Dany turned it.†
p. 104.6
- He saw Maester Luwin on his balcony, studying the sky through a polished bronze tube and frowning as he made notes in a book.†
p. 162.3
- The links were forged of every metal known to man: black iron and red gold, bright copper and dull lead, steel and tin and pale silver, brass and bronze and platinum.†
p. 192.8
- Come the dry season, and the world turns the color of old bronze.†
p. 226.6
- "His armor is bronze, thousands and thousands of years old, engraved with magic runes that ward him against harm," she whispered to Jeyne.†
p. 294.1
- Bronze Yohn's heir, Ser Andar Royce, and his younger brother Ser Robar, their silvered steel plate filigreed in bronze with the same ancient runes that warded their father.†
p. 294.5
- Bronze Yohn's heir, Ser Andar Royce, and his younger brother Ser Robar, their silvered steel plate filigreed in bronze with the same ancient runes that warded their father.†
p. 294.6
- She knew the man only by reputation; Bronze Yohn's cousin, from a lesser branch of House Royce, yet still a formidable lord in his own right.†
p. 368.9
- The Horse Gate of Vaes Dothrak was made of two gigantic bronze stallions, rearing, their hooves meeting a hundred feet above the roadway to form a pointed arch.†
p. 385.1
- The bronze stallions threw long shadows across the waving grasses as Khal Drogo led the khalasar under their hooves and down the godsway, his bloodriders beside him.†
p. 385.4
- "Where is the city?" she asked as they passed beneath the bronze arch.†
p. 386.2
- While her handmaids prepared the meal, Dany laid out the clothing she'd had made to her brother's measure: a tunic and leggings of crisp white linen, leather sandals that laced up to the knee, a bronze medallion belt, a leather vest painted with fire-breathing dragons.†
p. 392.9
- She reached out with her other hand and grabbed the first thing she touched, the belt she'd hoped to give him, a heavy chain of ornate bronze medallions.†
p. 394.3
- Irri fetched the egg with the deep green shell, bronze flecks shining amid its scales as she turned it in her small hands.†
p. 394.8
- One man removed the heavy bronze bars; the second pulled the door inward.†
p. 421.2
- You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like.†
p. 450.8
- Khal Drogo stood over her as she ate, his face as hard as a bronze shield.†
p. 490.5
- Bells rang, a sudden clangor of bronze birds.†
p. 490.9
- The eunuchs who served them threw bundles of dried grasses into a great bronze brazier, and clouds of fragrant smoke rose up toward the moon and the stars.†
p. 491.1
- Bronze Yohn Royce, Ser Balon Swann, Ser Loras, Lady Tanda, the Redwyne twins ...each of them has a retinue of knights and sworn swords here at court.†
p. 513.5
- His men pushed open the great oaken doors, twenty feet tall and banded with bronze.†
p. 526.8
- Bran watched them come from a guard turret atop the outer wall, peering through Maester Luwin's bronze far-eye while perched on Hodor's shoulders.†
p. 568.4
- He handed the bronze tube back to the maester, and noticed how thin Luwin's hair had grown on top.†
p. 570.7
- His skin shone dark as bronze in the ruddy light from the brazier, the faint lines of old scars visible on his broad chest.†
p. 583.1
- "This day I will go to the grass and hunt, woman wife," he announced as he shrugged into a painted vest and buckled on a wide belt with heavy medallions of silver, gold, and bronze.†
p. 584.2
- Brandon fell to him, and Bronze Yohn Royce, and even the splendid Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning.†
p. 631.4
- Ser Addam dropped to one knee, a rangy man with dark copper hair that fell to his shoulders, armored in burnished bronzed steel with the fiery tree of his House etched black on his breastplate.†
p. 693.1
- It looked old; hammered red bronze, leaf-shaped, its blade covered with ancient glyphs.†
p. 711.4
- The bells in the seven towers of the Great Sept of Baelor had tolled for a day and a night, the thunder of their grief rolling across the city in a bronze tide.†
p. 718.1
- Tottering piles of books covered tables and chairs, rows of stoppered jars lined the shelves, candle stubs and puddles of dried wax dotted the furniture, the bronze Myrish lens tube sat on a tripod by the terrace door, star charts hung from the walls, shadow maps lay scattered among the rushes, papers, quills, and pots of inks were everywhere, and all of it was spotted with droppings from the ravens in the rafters.†
p. 735.8
- The wars went on until the earth ran red with blood of men and children both, but more children than men, for men were bigger and stronger, and wood and stone and obsidian make a poor match for bronze.†
p. 738.3
- It was the pale one, its scales the color of butter cream, veined with whorls of gold and bronze, and Dany could feel the heat of it.†
p. 755.1
- So many bells, gold and silver and bronze.†
p. 802.5
- The cream-and-gold dragon was suckling at her left breast, the green-and-bronze at the right.†
p. 806.6
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)