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 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
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 Abraham Merritt
Above was star-sown night, but Rome lay under a kobold roof of her own lighting.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
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 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
