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 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

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

Balder was also endeavoring to climb up the other side of the sofa, so that the sleeping child opened her large blue eyes again and stared with a frightened gaze at the black kobold.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul

"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