Literary notes about Copper (AI summary)
In literature, the color copper is often employed to evoke a rich, warm glow that bridges the natural and the human. Writers use descriptors such as "copper-skin" to illustrate a radiant complexion [1] and "gown of copper-red" to suggest both vibrancy and elegance in clothing [2]. Copper’s hue also appears in depictions of faces and races—authors refer to "copper-colored faces" [3], "skin copper-red" [4], and even "copper-colored races" or natives [5, 6]—imbuing their characters with an earthy, enduring quality. This metallic warmth extends into nature as well, with imagery like the sun "glowing like a disc of molten copper" to capture a breathtaking sky at dusk [7]. Moreover, the allure of copper is reflected in detailed character portrayals, such as a bearded man with "cheeks and brow bronzed to copper-brown" [8] and a figure whose "tousled mass of copper red hair" adds a striking accent to the narrative [9].
- There we were, twenty craft strong, with clerks, traders, one steersman and eight willowy, copper-skin paddlers in each long birch canoe.
— from Lords of the North by Agnes C. Laut - Hermia Herrick, in a gown of copper-red, is knitting languidly a little silk sock for the child nestling silently at her knee.
— from Rossmoyne by Duchess - Copper-colored faces appeared and disappeared at the doors of the huts.
— from Vagabond Life in Mexico by Gabriel Ferry - Bulb pyriform, measuring four inches and a half in depth, and two inches in diameter at the broadest part; neck small; skin copper-red.
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr - The traces of red men or copper-colored races are found in many parts of the continent.
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly - They were in every instance the copper-colored natives, who went limping away, looking back in abject terror.
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Columbia; or, In the Wilderness of the Great Northwest by St. George Rathborne - THE TRADERS We were steaming to the westward, towards the spot where the sun, glowing like a disc of molten copper, was slowly nearing the horizon.
— from Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories by H. Taprell (Henry Taprell) Dorling - He was a bearded man, with cheeks and brow bronzed to copper-brown, and in him Van Brunt knew his kind.
— from Children of the Frost by Jack London - Her red calico dress and her tousled mass of copper red hair made a bit of flare amidst the dull hues of the somber scene.
— from The Story of Duciehurst: A Tale of the Mississippi by Mary Noailles Murfree
