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

"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 MacDonald, George

And all the place was filled with a goblin bustle, trollish racketings, ringing of gnomish anvils, clanging of kobold forges—a clamorous cavern filled with metal Nibelungens.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

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

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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher