Staring at silken hair, golden and black and ruddy bronze, at red lips and blossoms of fair bosoms, he thought them exquisitely tinted statues.

Torches blazed in golden cressets to either side of the great hammered doors, reddening the already ruddy bronze and throwing the carved scenes into bold relief, making the figures seem to come alive as the doors opened and the shadows flitted across the incised panels.

I traced the lines of his face with my fingers, ruddy bronze and lined with sun and care; the high forehead with its thick auburn brows, and the broad planes of his cheek, the long straight nose, straight as a blade.

He said something to the man nearest him-as tall as the tallest, that one, and darker-haired than most, like ruddy bronze.

It might have been one of the first iron weapons borne by the hand of man; the legends of Conan's people remembered the days when men hewed and thrust with ruddy bronze, and the fabrication of iron was unknown.

His face was flushed a ruddy bronze with effort, and his chest heaved under his shirt ruffles.

"Brownhaired with glints of ruddy bronze, goldeneyed, and lovely as a dream, with long, slender, beautiful hands?"

His face, normally a pale, ruddy bronze, had faded to a blotchy white as I spoke.