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bronze
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The Blood of Olympus
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Riptide grew into a Celestial bronze sword.
p. 113.5 *

bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
They wore bronze breastplates and elaborate helmets topped with horsehair bristles.
p. 380.2
Frost spread across her bronze breastplate.
p. 404.1
Piper didn't look dangerous, but if the need arose, she could dual-wield Celestial bronze blades or shoot her enemies in the face with ripe mangoes.†
p. 4.9
Columned porticoes faced the central atrium, which had a huge fountain and bronze braziers.†
p. 10.8
At that point, Jason and the girls would have a few seconds to take cover before the ship's catapults fired on their position, engulfing the palace in Greek fire and bursts of Celestial bronze shrapnel.†
p. 13.4
Over by the sand fountain, Piper had also drawn her sword—the jagged bronze blade she'd taken from Zethes the Boread.†
p. 37.1
In front of her, a bronze faun stood in the middle of a sunken fountain decorated with mosaic tile.†
p. 51.3
The little bronze faun in the fountain had both his arms raised, facing Athena, so he seemed to be cowering in fear of the new arrival.†
p. 51.6
The little bronze faun cast a shadow across the dry fountain.†
p. 58.1
She took one last look at the bronze faun cowering before the sunrise and the Athena Parthenos.†
p. 59.9
The Celestial bronze 0-ring slipped out of Leo's pliers and slid into the depths of the crawl space.†
p. 85.9
Leo swept his flashlight across the Celestial bronze plates and pistons he'd been installing slowly but surely.†
p. 86.3
The mattress was littered with wires, nails, and the guts of several disassembled bronze machines.†
p. 87.1
He didn't really have time, but he unlocked Groucho's middle drawer and stared at the two precious objects inside: a bronze astrolabe he'd picked up in Bologna, and a fist-sized chunk of crystal from Ogygia.†
p. 87.7
A deep cut from Celestial bronze or Imperial gold could literally dissolve a demigod's essence from the inside out.†
p. 91.6
The feathers twirled like gymnasts, growing larger, sprouting arms and legs, until they touched the ground as four metallic, human-sized replicas of the goddess, each armed with a golden spear and a Celestial bronze laurel wreath that looked suspiciously like a barbed wire Frisbee.†
p. 113.9
Percy hefted a bronze grenade.†
p. 119.3
He dashed to the left as Leo pulled a ball-peen hammer from his tool belt and yelled, "Hey, Bronze Butt!"†
p. 120.3
Two Bronze Butts down, two more to go.†
p. 121.1
Here they were, hiding behind a wall in the middle of a magical war zone, with grenades and grizzly bears and Bronze Butt Nikettes to worry about, and Percy pulls this on him.†
p. 122.4
He heard car crashes at least once a week, but this sound was worse—Celestial bronze crumpling, wood splintering, stallions screaming, and a goddess wailing in two distinct voices, both of them very surprised.†
p. 125.9
It would've been nice to have Calypso's help weaving the Celestial bronze filaments.†
p. 126.9
The other side unfolded into a miniature radar dish made of Celestial bronze mirrors.†
p. 127.1
Metal filaments shot upward, wrapping Nike in a bronze net.†
p. 127.8
That's high quality Celestial bronze netting, and I'm a son of Hephaestus.†
p. 128.1
The idea of any of them dying made him feel empty—like he was back in the giants' bronze jar, alone in the dark, subsisting only on sour pomegranate seeds.†
p. 149.1
We're staring at this bronze warrior statue.†
p. 175.6
The bronze dragon figurehead creaked and clacked.†
p. 177.1
If such a minor scrape from Celestial bronze took so long to heal, Piper wondered how he'd ever get over the Imperial gold wound in his gut.†
p. 179.1
"And a bronze statue surrounded by fire," Percy said.†
p. 190.1
A bronze dragonhead, neatly decapitated, wobbled across the floor.†
p. 196.2
Three bronze dragon statues stood in a row, aligned with the holes in the roof.†
p. 196.4
At the far end of the room, on a stone dais, stood the human-sized bronze statue of a warrior—the god Ares, Piper guessed—with heavy bronze chains wrapped around his body, anchoring him to the floor.†
p. 197.2
At the far end of the room, on a stone dais, stood the human-sized bronze statue of a warrior—the god Ares, Piper guessed—with heavy bronze chains wrapped around his body, anchoring him to the floor.†
p. 197.2
Piper stared at the cruel bronze face of the war god.†
p. 207.4 *
She swung her blade and took off the bronze statue's head.†
p. 208.1
They were the work of Hephaestus—bronze mechanical eyes embedded in the giant's sockets.†
p. 237.6
The grip was polished bronze, studded with dials and buttons.†
p. 237.9
They sank so deep that Jason couldn't see anything except Percy swimming next to him in the dim light of their gold and bronze blades.†
p. 253.3
Her hands rested on a disk of polished green metal about six feet in diameter, sitting on a bronze tripod.†
p. 254.7
Kym lifted her bronze disk from its pedestal.†
p. 268.6
The goddess picked up her bronze disk.†
p. 271.1
Reyna and the coach experienced his journey through Tartarus, his capture by the giants, his days wasting away inside that bronze jar.†
p. 296.5
AT THE END OF THE HALL stood a walnut door with a bronze plaque: ASCLEPIUS MD, DMD, DME, DC, DVS, FAAN, OMG, EMT, TTYL, FRCP, ME, IOU, OD, OT, PHARMD, BAMF, RN, PHD, INC., SMH†
p. 341.1
Leo checked the ancient bronze astrolabe, which was now fitted with the crystal from Ogygia.†
p. 351.4
His face was chiseled and bronze, his eyes black as basalt, his curly dark hair glistening with oil.†
p. 379.8
She felt her Mist disguise burn away until she was just Piper again—one girl in the midst of an army of giants, her jagged bronze blade like a toothpick compared to their massive weapons.†
p. 402.6
The goddess thrust her spear at the giant, then brandished her shield with the fearsome bronzed visage of Medusa.†
p. 438.7
Up close, his lightning bolt appeared as a bronze rod a meter long, pointed on both ends, with blades of energy extending from both sides to form a javelin of white electricity.†
p. 440.8

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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) tin

Bronze 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
(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)

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