bronze

• If the bronze were plastic I see how a great sculptor by but few strokes could convert it into an agonizing Stephen or Sebastian. —  New Italian sketches
• Now the mixture of tin and copper produces bronze, the first metal which has been used to make weapons and tools of, in most cases long before iron, which is much more difficult to work, and as the quality of the metal depends on the proper mixture of the two ingredients, it is but natural that the aid of the god Fire should have been specially invoked for the operation. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
• Though I could carve a Venus or a Belvedere with ease, My wondrous skill is lacking when it comes to carving these I cast and cut and chisel, I model and I mould, I copy poses picturesque from studies new and old; In marble, bronze, and potter's clay, in wax and wood and stone I carve the old-time statues with improvements of my own Illustration I have Apollo on a horse, Minerva on a wheel, Hercules going fishing with his basket and his creel. —  The Jingle Book
• There were the objects on the mantelpiece: a facsimile in bronze--not bronze plaster--of the beautiful head of Hypnos and a pair of fine Ushabti figures. —  The Eye of Osiris
• Himself next he girds on his shoulders the corslet stiff with gold and pale mountain-bronze, and buckles on the sword and shield and scarlet-plumed [90-124]helmet-spikes: that sword the divine Lord of Fire had himself forged for his father Daunus and dipped glowing in the Stygian wave. —  The Aeneid of Virgil

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