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"Brazen" in literature serves a dual function, portraying both physical attributes and character traits. Authors use it to vividly describe objects fashioned of brass or bronze—ranging from celestial vaults [1] and statues [2, 3] to intricate components like knobs and caldrons [4, 5]—thereby evoking a sense of enduring strength and striking visual imagery. At the same time, the term extends metaphorically to capture unashamed boldness or undue impudence, as when characters or actions are described as shamelessly audacious or blatantly treacherous [6, 7, 8]. Thus, "brazen" richly conveys both the gleam of cold metal and the heat of unvarnished, defiant behavior.
  1. They fought and fought, and an iron clank rose through the void air to the brazen vault of heaven.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  2. And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live. 21:9.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. And a brazen statue of him was placed in the temple of Vulcan, by which honourable allusion was made to the lameness caused by his wound.
    — from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch
  4. " Then the Snow Man looked, and saw a bright polished thing with a brazen knob, and fire gleaming from the lower part of it.
    — from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. Andersen
  5. Then the king being angry, commanded fryingpans and brazen caldrons to be made hot: which forthwith being heated, 7:4.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  6. Is this brazen individual claiming he'll take us even to that location?"
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  7. Nothing more--that is, not counting hysterics, shrieks, reproaches, threats, and lies--brazen, treacherous lies.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  8. I declared myself quite willing, for it was necessary to brazen it out, after having ventured as far as I had done.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

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