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.

It seemed as if I had heard the unseen kobold, laughing in mockery, seat himself near me.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

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

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