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

He shut himself in his room like some venomous kobold or flibbertigibbet, whining, complaining, cursing, accusing.

From Heart of the West by Henry, O.

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

No kobold, gnome, or any other goblin of the mine disturbed the watchers through that night.

From The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by Burton, Frederic William

The kobold neither raised his head nor showed other sign than the ceasing of his song that he was aware of her presence.

From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George