All 39 Uses of

bronze

in

The Hidden Oracle

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

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. 61.5

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

From her coat pocket, she pulled two loops of bronze, like resistance bands of braided metal.†
p. 154.7

Next to me, in the glow of the apple, Meg seemed to have turned to bronze.†
p. 170.1

It was made from Celestial bronze—thin sheets of metal acid-etched to resemble the grain of blond oak wood.†
p. 212.2

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

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 ...I supposed because Nero hadn't wanted his detractors trying to shoot arrows into his imperial noggin.†
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

She leaped off the Colossus's head, vaporized into shadow, and reappeared on the ground, bounding after her new bronze stick.†
p. 332.7

They ran ahead of the Colossus, jeering at him, throwing things, and calling him Bronze Butt.†
p. 333.6

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

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:

(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