All 22 Uses
bronze
in
A Clash of Kings
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- Courtiers filled the gallery while supplicants clustered near the towering oak-and-bronze doors.
p. 401.1bronze = made of a type of metal
- Finally a great pair of bronze doors appeared to her left, grander than the rest.
p. 701.1 *bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- Lord Hoster's smith had done his work well, and Robb's crown looked much as the other was said to have looked in the tales told of the Stark kings of old; an open circlet of hammered bronze incised with the runes of the First Men, surmounted by nine black iron spikes wrought in the shape of longswords.†
p. 107.5
- Of gold and silver and gemstones, it had none; bronze and iron were the metals of winter, dark and strong to fight against the cold.†
p. 107.7
- The man had made for a colorful spectacle, his red robes flapping while his blade writhed with pale green flames, but everyone knew there was no true magic to it, and in the end his fire had guttered out and Bronze Yohn Royce had brained him with a common mace.†
p. 156.5
- Their Booming Tower was named for its immense bronze bell, rung of old to call the townsfolk and farmhands into the castle when longships were sighted on the western horizon.†
p. 178.5
- Lord Jason Mallister fell before me, and Bronze Yohn Royce.†
p. 198.4
- Children wandered the twisty alleys and found old bronze coins and hits of purple glass and stone flagons with handles carved like snakes.†
p. 201.3
- She wore lambskin breeches soft with long use, and a sleeveless jerkin armored in bronze scales.†
p. 328.7
- A woven net hung from one slim hip, a long bronze knife from the other; under her arm she carried an old iron greathelm spotted with rust; a frog spear and round leathern shield were strapped to her back.†
p. 328.8
- "I swear it by bronze and iron," his sister said.†
p. 329.5
- On the walls of Qarth, men beat gongs to herald her coming, while others blew curious horns that encircled their bodies like great bronze snakes.†
p. 422.1
- She passed under a bronze arch fashioned in the likeness of two snakes mating, their scales delicate flakes of jade, obsidian, and lapis lazuli.†
p. 423.6
- Tyrion pounded until the ornate bronze eye clacked open.†
p. 452.6
- She knew him slightly—one of Bronze Yohn's sons, comely in a rough-hewn way, a tourney warrior of some renown.†
p. 484.2
- The Fist of the First Men was an old place, only ... Beneath the dragonglass was an old warhorn, made from an auroch's horn and banded in bronze.†
p. 517.9
- The fingers curled around the drinking horn were heavy with rings, gold and —silver and bronze, set with chunks of sapphire and garnet and dragonglass.†
p. 543.5
- The horse was barded in bronze-colored trappings dyed to match the rider's cloak and emblazoned with the burning tree.†
p. 548.1 *
- All in leather and fur they were, with here and there a bit of steel or bronze; heavy beards covered hard lean faces, and made them look as shaggy as their garrons.†
p. 626.9
- The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music.†
p. 811.2
- The sound was a deep-throated bronze booming, coming faster with each knell.†
p. 867.9
- Elsewhere they saw beautiful bronze daggers for sale, dried squids and carved onyx, a potent magical elixir made of virgin's milk and shade of the evening, even dragon's eggs which looked suspiciously like painted rocks.†
p. 876.9
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)