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

And all the place was filled with a goblin bustle, trollish racketings, ringing of gnomish anvils, clanging of kobold forges—a clamorous cavern filled with metal Nibelungens.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

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

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

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

The kobold Thought moves with us when we shift Our dwelling to escape him; perched aloft On the first load of household-stuff he went: For, where the mind goes, goes old furniture.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell