All 39 Uses of
bronze
in
The Hidden Oracle
- With a metallic shink, Percy's pen grew into a blade of glowing Celestial bronze.†
p. 54..3
- I was going to ask what happens if I just slice and dice these mouth-breathers with Celestial bronze.†
p. 57..5
- I saw Hyacinthus, his bronze shoulders and dark ringlets gleaming in the sunlight.†
p. 61..6
- I gripped the wheel and stared in horror as a massive bronze face loomed outside the windshield.†
p. 82..5
- One was a tall boy of about thirteen, his skin burnished bronze and his cornrows woven like DNA helixes.†
p. 85..7
- During the fight with Gaea, Leo and his bronze dragon, Festus, disappeared in a midair fiery explosion.†
p. 114..0
- Once upon a time, I could have divined his whereabouts as easily as you might check a Facebook timeline, but now I could only stare at the sky and wonder when a small impish demigod might appear with a bronze dragon and a plate of tacos.†
p. 115..7
- Along Sherman's cheek, his zigzag scar darkened to bronze.†
p. 148..6
- From her coat pocket, she pulled two loops of bronze, like resistance bands of braided metal.†
p. 154..7
- The bronze bands around my leg began to chafe.†
p. 164..4
- Next to me, in the glow of the apple, Meg seemed to have turned to bronze.†
p. 170..2
- It resonates best with Celestial bronze.†
p. 181..7
- It was made from Celestial bronze—thin sheets of metal acid-etched to resemble the grain of blond oak wood.†
p. 212..2
- They spit acid that can melt through bronze armor and—†
p. 216..2
- Their pincers can snap through Celestial bronze.†
p. 227..2
- I tried to break my ridiculous combat ukulele, but the Celestial bronze instrument defied my attempts.†
p. 233..6
- You had the nerve to put a hundred-foot-tall bronze statue in your front lawn!†
p. 280..9
- Nero's voice turned as hard as bronze.†
p. 283..7
- A single voice boomed forth from the wind chimes, like a cheerleader screaming through a megaphone: There once was a god named Apollo
Who plunged in a cave blue and hollow
Upon a three-seater
The bronze fire-eater
Was forced death and madness to swallow
The wind chimes stilled.†
p. 304..3
- I had a flashback to my dream of the sun bus careening toward a giant bronze face.†
p. 310..8 *
- Imagine seeing yourself as a hundred-foot-tall bronze statue—a replica of your own magnificence, gleaming in the late afternoon light.†
p. 316..2
- A criminally beautiful hundred-foot-tall Celestial bronze giant was another thing entirely.†
p. 318..2
- Meanwhile, at his feet, Connor Stoll and Harley used twin flamethrowers to give the Colossus a molten pedicure, while the Nike twins manned a catapult, lobbing boulders at the Colossus's Celestial bronze crotch.†
p. 319..6
- Its nostrils were sealed with bronze ….†
p. 322..4
- However, it seemed better than our other option, which was to be crushed under a two-ton bronze foot.†
p. 322..7
- We might be able to outmaneuver this giant hunk of good-looking bronze.†
p. 326..6
- Then, from somewhere above us, a voice yelled, "Hey, Bronze Butt!"†
p. 330..2
- Out of the shadows dropped a furry black monster dog—a hellhound—and astride his back was a young man with a glowing bronze sword.
p. 330..8 *bronze = made of a type of high-quality metal
- All right, who unleashed the giant bronze guy?†
p. 331..8
- She leaped off the Colossus's head, vaporized into shadow, and reappeared on the ground, bounding after her new bronze stick.†
p. 332..7
- "Hey, Bronze Butt!" he yelled again.†
p. 333..0
- They ran ahead of the Colossus, jeering at him, throwing things, and calling him Bronze Butt.†
p. 333..7
- To avoid running into the huge bronze Colossus directly in their path, they dove toward the earth.†
p. 334..8
- Together they galloped into the surf, Percy waving his sword and calling out various bronze-buttthemed insults to the Colossus.†
p. 337..4
- They continued to harry the Colossus from both sides while Percy and Chiron galloped through the tide, Mrs. O'Leary romping at their heels with her new bronze stick.†
p. 337..9
- But I recited the lines: "There once was a god named Apollo
Who plunged in a cave blue and hollow
Upon a three-seater
The bronze fire-eater
Was forced death and madness to swallow"
Rachel covered her mouth.†
p. 349..6
- Three-seater, bronze fire-eater, yadda yadda.†
p. 349..9
- Spiraling down from the clouds was a large winged creature that glinted of Celestial bronze.†
p. 350..8
- The prophecy from Dodona speaks of the bronze fire-eater, but …. it feels wrong for me to ask you to risk your lives.†
p. 358..4
Definitions:
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(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) tineditor's notes: 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.
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(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