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

Saxe and the guide slept, and Dale was keenly awake watching for the kobold who disturbed their peace.

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

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

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

"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