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

When a vessel is doomed the kobold appears smoking a short pipe, dressed in yellow, and wearing a night-cap.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

But I saw no 'sudden Ianthe;' and to this day have never seen even a kobold, a wraith, or a döppelganger!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 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

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 Lowell, James Russell