kobold

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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

It seemed as if I had heard the unseen kobold, laughing in mockery, seat himself near me.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

The German miners gave to an ore which they considered useless the name kobalt, from kobold, a goblin, gnome.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

"Oh, no," cried the host, quite humbly, "I will gladly produce everything, only make the accursed kobold creep back into the sack."

From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret

Above was star-sown night, but Rome lay under a kobold roof of her own lighting.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary