When it was cast in 1730, by order of the Empress Anne, the gold, silver, and copper consumed in the operation weighed ninety-one hundred and twenty tons, valued at the royal sum of half a million dollars.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Words over the copper wire speed quicker than camels.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Time ceased to be measured accurately; events moved slowly in an unreal world of sultry heat and smoke and a red sun wading heavily through the copper-brown sky from the east to the west, and a moon as red which followed meekly after.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower