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 next picture on which he came illustrated a fairy-story, and represented a kobold or some malicious spirit with evil eyes, a fierce moustache and a huge open mouth.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

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

But I saw no 'sudden Ianthe;' and to this day have never seen even a kobold, a wraith, or a döppelganger!

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

There the kobold sat and ate breakfast; he had just finished when they came.

From Mogens and Other Stories by Grabow, Anna