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bronze
in
A Dance With Dragons
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- Their caps had only one spike each, and their faces showed so little they might have been cast of bronze as well.
p. 36.1 *bronze = a type of metal
- Three hundred yards away, Astapor's new Unsullied had been pouring through their gates and forming up in ranks beneath their city's crumbling red brick walls, dawn light glinting off their spiked bronze helmets and the points of their long spears.
p. 357.4bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- The Magnar of Thenn stood waiting by the fire, clad as if for battle, in fur and leather and bronze scales, a bronze sword at his hip.
p. 710.6
- The Magnar of Thenn stood waiting by the fire, clad as if for battle, in fur and leather and bronze scales, a bronze sword at his hip.
p. 710.6
- The guards were plump, their faces as smooth as babies' bottoms, and every man of them wore a spiked bronze cap.†
p. 26.3
- His bronze cap was crested with three spikes.†
p. 35.9
- In the afternoon a sculptor came, proposing to replace the head of the great bronze harpy in the Plaza of Purification with one cast in Dany's image.†
p. 48.7
- They had crowned her with a simple circlet of dark bronze, yet she looked more regal in bronze than Stannis did in gold.†
p. 148.1
- They had crowned her with a simple circlet of dark bronze, yet she looked more regal in bronze than Stannis did in gold.†
p. 148.1
- The new Magnar of Therm was a younger, shorter version of his father—lean, balding, clad in bronze greaves and a leather shirt sewn with bronze scales.†
p. 151.9
- The new Magnar of Therm was a younger, shorter version of his father—lean, balding, clad in bronze greaves and a leather shirt sewn with bronze scales.†
p. 151.9
- Four eyes burned through the shadows—two of molten gold and two of bronze.†
p. 172.7
- His doublet was divided down the middle; the left side was purple velvet with bronze studs; the right, yellow wool embroidered in green floral patterns.†
p. 202.8
- Tywin Lannister was dead, butchered by his dwarf son; his corpse had stunk so badly that no one had been able to enter the Great Sept of Baelor for days afterward; the Lady of the Eyrie had been murdered by a singer; Littlefinger ruled the Vale now, but Bronze Yohn Royce had sworn to bring him down; Balon Greyjoy had died as well, and his brothers were fighting for the Seastone Chair; Sandor Clegane had turned outlaw and was plundering and killing in the lands along the Trident; Myr and Lys and Tyrosh were embroiled in another war; a slave revolt was raging in the east.†
p. 217.4
- Copper was plentiful in the Ghiscari hills, but the metal was not as valuable as it had been when bronze ruled the world.†
p. 224.5
- Sigorn was there as well, the young Magnar of Thenn, clad in a leather hauberk sewn with bronze scales.†
p. 243.6
- "The maid tells it true," declared a stocky man in white and purple, whose cloak was fastened with a pair of crossed bronze keys.†
p. 275.3
- Half a dozen Thenns in bronze scale armor stood clustered round one cellar stair, watching sullenly and making no attempt to join the others.†
p. 297.1
- The Magnar turned and vanished back into the tunnels, and his bronze-clad minions followed hard at his heels.†
p. 301.3
- Deep bronze booms and silver chiming pounded through his skull, a maddening cacophony of noise that grew ever louder until it seemed as if his head would explode.†
p. 336.7
- Then there was the Girl General, who rode about on a white horse with a red mane and commanded a hundred strapping slave soldiers that she had bred and trained herself, all of them young, lean, rippling with muscle, and naked but for breech-clouts, yellow cloaks, and long bronze shields with erotic inlays.†
p. 354.6
- It was only coming back that Frog got a good look at the faces beneath the spiked bronze caps and realized that most were no older than he.†
p. 358.5
- Ser Jorah produced his pair of gloves, and slapped them down on the table beside the other gifts the widow had received this morning: a silver goblet, an ornate fan carved of jade leaves so thin they were translucent, and an ancient bronze dagger marked with runes.†
p. 402.1
- The wildling wore a sleeveless jerkin of boiled leather dotted with bronze studs beneath a worn cloak mottled in shades of green and brown.†
p. 452.5
- A white-haired woman stepped toward them through a drift of dark red leaves, a bronze sickle in her hand.†
p. 505.3
- The six who remained included a mother and child, two old men, a wounded Thenn in battered bronze, and one of the Hornfoot folk, his bare feet so badly frostbitten that Jon knew at a glance he would never walk again.†
p. 513.8
- Melisandre's faithful: pallid ladies, shivering serving girls, Ser Axell and Ser Narbert and Ser Lambert, men-at-arms in iron mail and Thenns in bronze, even a few of Jon's black brothers.†
p. 709.3
- The bride's cloak Sigorn fastened about Lady Alys's shoulders showed a bronze disk on a field of white wool, surrounded by flames made with wisps of crimson silk.†
p. 711.8
- They mine tin and copper for bronze, forge their own arms and armor instead of stealing it.†
p. 719.1
- Jhiqui favored the gigantic Goghor, who looked more bull than man, even to the bronze ring in his nose.†
p. 755.4
- At the gates of Daznak's Pit two towering bronze warriors stood locked in mortal combat.†
p. 756.5
- Strong Belwas and Ser Barristan fell in to either side as she and her lord husband passed beneath the bronzes, to emerge at the top of a great brick bowl ringed by descending tiers of benches, each a different color.†
p. 756.7
- The Thenns worked bronze, and raiders like the Weeper carried stolen steel and iron swords looted off some corpse ...but even those were oft of ancient vintage, dinted from years of hard use and spotted with rust.†
p. 781.7
- The sand that Drogon stirred as he took wing had stung Ser Barristan's eyes, but through a veil of tears he had watched the beast fly from the pit, his great black wings slapping at the shoulders of the bronze warriors at the gates.†
p. 803.3
- The doors were solid bronze, closed with a heavy iron bar.†
p. 976.8
- Bronze, they were, brighter than polished shields, glowing with their own heat, burning behind a veil of smoke rising from the dragon's nostrils.†
p. 980.9
- The dragon's head was larger than a horse's, and the neck stretched on and on, uncoiling like some great green serpent as the head rose, until those two glowing bronze eyes were staring down at him.†
p. 981.2
- Grey Worm was there for the Unsullied, attended by three eunuch serjeants in spiked bronze caps.†
p. 1005.5
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)