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

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

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

Above was star-sown night, but Rome lay under a kobold roof of her own lighting.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

The kobold of the phantom ship is named Klabot´erman, a kobold who helps sailors at their work, but beats those who are idle.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham