kobold
Example Sentences
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In a typical game, online or off, the game master will present the players with a situation — an encounter with a kobold, say.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2021
The queer, dry, lean old Captain had been to her all her life like a faithful kobold or brownie, an unquestioning servant of all her gentle biddings.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe
He shut himself in his room like some venomous kobold or flibbertigibbet, whining, complaining, cursing, accusing.
From Heart of the West by O. Henry
The next picture on which he came illustrated a fairy-story, and represented a kobold or some malicious spirit with evil eyes, a fierce moustache and a huge open mouth.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
This world and the other, too, are always present to his mind, and there in the corner is the little black kobold of a doubt making mouths at him.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
