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

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

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

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

By the magic of the moon, When Diana from her dome Wakes from slumber, woos from swoon All the folk who fear the noon, Dwarf and kobold, witch and gnome— I conjure thee, maiden, come!

From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

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