All 50 Uses
bronze
in
A Storm of Swords
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- His captive knelt before the hearth, encircled by wooden spears and bronze swords.
p. 566.1bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- As Ser Addam marched him through the towering bronze doors and down the long carpet, he felt the eyes upon him.
p. 900.5 *
- Elsewhere the golden dome of the Temple of the Graces blazed bright, and bronze stars winked along the walls where the light of the rising sun touched the spikes on the helms of the Unsullied.
p. 994.6bronze = made of a shining yellowish metal
- Wildlings flew to meet them, shouting war cries and waving clubs and bronze swords and axes made of flint, galloping headlong at their ancient enemies.
p. 1022.7bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- From up here, he could see her more clearly; the lean striped hull, the bronze figurehead, the billowing sail.†
p. 74.1
- A few feet away, a taller, leaner man in a leather shirt sewn with bronze scales stood frowning over a map, a two-handed greatsword slung across his back in a leather sheath.†
p. 97.1
- Rhaegal was made of the green of summer and the bronze of fall.†
p. 107.5
- The slaves in the spiked bronze hats?†
p. 117.9
- We have sworn you our faith by earth and water, bronze and iron, ice and fire.†
p. 132.2
- The bronze figurehead at the bow of Shayala's Dance sent up wings of salt spray as it cut the waves.†
p. 134.5
- On his head was the sword crown they had fashioned him of bronze and iron.†
p. 190.3
- Beneath his slashed cloak of black wool and red silk he wore black ringmail and shaggy fur breeches, and on his head was a great bronze-and-iron helm with raven wings at either temple.†
p. 216.2
- Robb had donned his crown before coming to the hall, and the bronze shone darkly in the torchlight.†
p. 274.1
- He gazed at his crown, the dark gleam of bronze, the circle of iron swords.†
p. 278.5
- Robb reached down with both hands, lifted the heavy bronze-and-iron crown, and set it back atop his head, and suddenly he was a king again.†
p. 280.5
- In the center of the Plaza of Pride stood a red brick fountain whose waters smelled of brimstone, and in the center of the fountain a monstrous harpy made of hammered bronze.†
p. 311.2
- Yet the symbol of the Old Empire still endured here, though this bronze monster had a heavy chain dangling from her talons, an open manacle at either end.†
p. 312.1
- The bronze is not for sale.†
p. 312.2
- A thousand had been marched out of their barracks for her inspection; drawn up in ten ranks of one hundred before the fountain and its great bronze harpy, they stood stiffly at attention, their stony eyes fixed straight ahead.†
p. 313.3
- They wore nought but white linen clouts knotted about their loins, and conical bronze helms topped with a sharpened spike a foot tall.†
p. 313.4
- Kraznys stopped in front of a Ghiscari who might have been his taller fitter brother, and flicked his lash at a small bronze disk on the swordbelt at his feet.†
p. 317.8
- The clasp that fastened his squirrelskin cloak was gold and bronze and wrought in the shape of a pinecone, and the Liddles bore pinecones on the white half of their green-and-white shields.†
p. 334.4
- So he donned a shirt sewn with bronze scales, like mine, took up a leathern shield and a three-pronged spear, like mine, and paddled a little skin boat down the Green Fork.†
p. 338.3
- Jon drew Longclaw in a single smooth motion, but it was only one of the Thenns, a broad man in a bronze helm.†
p. 359.5
- He walked past the Thenns, sitting atop their rounded bronze helms about their cookfires.†
p. 362.3
- Today she rode her silver, clad in horsehair pants and painted leather vest, a bronze medallion belt about her waist and two more crossed between her breasts.†
p. 376.1
- The Plaza of Pride with its great bronze harpy was too small to hold all the Unsullied she had bought.†
p. 377.2
- There were no bronze statues here; only a wooden platform where rebellious slaves were racked, and flayed, and hanged.†
p. 377.3
- Rank on rank on rank they stood, her stone halfmen with their hearts of brick; eight thousand and six hundred in the spiked bronze caps of fully trained Unsullied, and five thousand odd behind them, bareheaded, yet armed with spears and shortswords.†
p. 377.8
- The Thenns carried bronze-banded warhorns to give warning should the Watch be sighted.†
p. 405.8
- The boots had spikes jutting from the toes; iron, for Jarl and two others, bronze for some, but most often jagged bone.†
p. 407.4
- The First Men killed half of them with bronze blades, and the Andals finished the job with iron.†
p. 451.5
- A trout, scaled in silver and bronze, crowned the crest of the greathelm they placed beside his head.†
p. 474.4
- He clapped his hands, and two of his escort came forward bearing a heavy cedar chest bound in bronze and gold.†
p. 579.6
- Bronze armor, some bits of steel.†
p. 662.4
- "The Magnar's men are disciplined, and they have bronze armor," he told them.†
p. 665.1
- Some would say it's a poor king who crowns himself with bronze, Your Grace.†
p. 675.2
- "Bronze and iron are stronger than gold and silver," Robb answered.†
p. 675.2
- The Magnar would be coming up that road before the day was done, his Thenns marching behind him with axes and spears in their hands and their bronze-and-leather shields on their backs.†
p. 739.3
- The Thenns carried shields of black boiled leather with bronze rims and bosses, but theirs were plain and unadorned.†
p. 747.4
- Three had hacked their way through the doors of Maester Aemon's apartments in the timber keep below the rookery, and a desperate fight was going on atop the Silent Tower, longswords against bronze axes.†
p. 749.1
- They wore halfhelms, and had thin bronze disks sewn to their long leather shirts.†
p. 749.3
- Many wielded bronze axes, though a few were chipped stone.†
p. 749.3
- They were screaming in the Old Tongue as they stormed the barricade, jabbing with their spears, swinging their bronze axes, spilling corn and blood with equal abandon while crossbow quarrels and arrows rained down on them from the archers that Donal Noye had posted on the stair.†
p. 749.4
- Bronze was no match for Valyrian steel.†
p. 749.9
- A bronze axe caught him just below the knee and the laughter turned into a bubbling shriek.†
p. 750.6
- His bronze scale armor gleamed darkly in the firelight.†
p. 752.2
- In his hand was a long weirwood spear with an ornate bronze head.†
p. 752.3
- Behind them, huge against the sky, could be seen the top of the Great Pyramid, a monstrous thing eight hundred feet tall with a towering bronze harpy at its top.†
p. 774.5
- "Did you see them bronze heads above the gates?" asked Brown Ben Plumm.†
p. 781.3
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)