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

Was it a malicious forest kobold, or only a night-owl?

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

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

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

From Heart of the West by Henry, O.

"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