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Literary analysis:

In literature, the color bronze is often used to evoke a warm, earthy radiance that imbues characters and scenes with a timeless, almost mythic quality. Authors employ bronze to capture the gleam of physical beauty and the subtle shifts of light and shadow on skin and hair. For example, the phrase “the bronze of her hair” [1] uses the color to suggest richness and depth, while “his bronze lips were turning pale” [2] hints at a transformation both emotional and physical. Similarly, the blend of auburn with “bronze gold glints” [3] and a description of an “abdomen … of a bronze red” [4] further demonstrates how bronze serves as a vivid marker of intense, natural color. Moreover, when characters are “draped in robes of bronze” [5] or depicted as figures “of bronze and crimson” [6], the hue becomes emblematic of strength and historical resonance, even as a faded bronze tone on skin [7] alludes to the passage of time and the erosion of youthful brilliance.

Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce
His eyes gleamed, and his bronze lips were turning pale.
— from The Log School-House on the Columbia by Hezekiah Butterworth
Her hair had been beautiful in the shadow; a rare tint of auburn with bronze gold glints, but now in the sunshine it was an aureole.
— from The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
494 The Cicindela campestris ( Fig. 523 ), or Tiger Beetle, is of a beautiful green, spotted with white; the abdomen is of a bronze red.
— from The Insect World Being a Popular Account of the Orders of Insects; Together with a Description of the Habits and Economy of Some of the Most Interesting Species by Louis Figuier
In my eyes, as Alphonse Karr said—and he was a good writer—’ the one I loved was always draped in robes of bronze.’
— from The Forged Coupon, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
For the instant she was in the air she was a figure of bronze and crimson.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at the End of the Trail by Margaret Vandercook
His skin had that look, but now the bronze was faded, and you could see that he had been born very fair in tint.
— from 1492 by Mary Johnston

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