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
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 Ernest Weekley
"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 Margaret Hunt
"I trust you are satisfied, ma'am," the kobold added, after a moment's vain expectation of a word from Juliet, "that your secret is safe with me."
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald
The kobold Thought moves with us when we shift Our dwelling to escape him; perched aloft On the first load of household-stuff he went: For, where the mind goes, goes old furniture.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
