" "He was," stated her companion, "a little, unmitigated, skipping, orange-tawny goblin!"

"There's five-and-twenty golden goblins in there," he ses.

" "Say, can you laugh indignant at the schemes Of magic terrors, visionary dreams, Portentous wonders, witching imps of Hell, The nightly goblin, and enchanting spell?" They laugh at all such stories; but on the contrary are most lawyers, divines, physicians, philosophers, Austin, Hemingius, Danaeus, Chytraeus, Zanchius, Aretius, &c. Delrio, Springer, Niderius, lib.

I now offer it to you as follows: It is known that the idols to whom the islanders pay public worship represent goblins which appear to them in the darkness, leading them into foolish errors; for they make images, in the forms of seated figures, out of plaited cotton, tightly stuffed inside, to represent these nocturnal goblins and which resemble those our artists paint upon walls.

In the time of Commodore Byron, they had already grown downward; yet he said of them that they were "enormous goblins," seven feet high, every one of them.

There is the agency of airy spirits, and of an earthly goblin; the operations of magick, the tumults of a storm, the adventures of a desert island, the native effusion of untaught affection, the punishment of guilt, and the final happiness of the pair for whom our passions and reason are equally interested.

For I saw that finny goblin Hidden in the abyss untrod; And I knew there can be laughter

But come now, come to that friendly goblin who will work for usto the mysterious spirit on whose account we will keep this corner of the world in anxiety and terroryour doughty rival but your still doughtier ally.

These charms were apparently possessed of singular efficacy, for scarcely were they commenced ere a hideous tempest arose, rain descended in torrents, phosphoric flashes darted across the sky, wolves and hyænas thronged howling from their dens, and gigantic goblins, arising from the earth, extended their fleshless arms towards Ananda, and strove to drag him from his seat.

We have two other songs (probably more) bearing the same title of Tom of Bedlam; one beginning, "From the top of high Caucasus;" the other commencing, "From the hag and hungry goblin;" either of which are quite as likely to have been intended as that mentioned above.

We have already remarked above that it is believed they adore the heavens; nevertheless, they make out of cotton-fabric certain masks, which resemble imaginary goblins they think they have seen in the night.

In this respect he singularly resembles the Bohemian charcoal-burner, who trembles at the thought of Rübezahl, that malicious goblin, who has an army of mountain-dwarfs and gnomes at his command.

Life laughs at death itself, or meets it with a noble confidenceis not taught to dread it as a malignant goblin.

"What a peculiar goblin it is!" thought Juliet, beginning to forget herself a little in watching and listening to the strange creature.

He now strode up with an air of alacrity and defiance, brandishing a roll of parchments, and confronted the seven principal goblins, by whom he was successively interrogated.

"Thou hast undergone every trial," pronounced the seventh goblin; "thou hast won the right to enter the treasury of the treasurer of all things, and to choose from it any one talisman at thy liking.

They remind one more of the feats of traditionary goblins; mischievous, noisy, untrustworthy; insensible to ridicule, apparently delighting to make fools of men, and perfectly indifferent to having the tables turned upon themselves.

They were like men who should enter the cavern of unknown goblins to escape from demons who were following visibly on their footsteps.

" "He was," stated her companion, "a little, unmitigated, skipping, orange-tawny goblin!"

They always seem like some race of banished goblins, doing penance for some primeval and inscrutable transgression, and if any bird have a history, it is they.

She would sit up in her bed a wizened little goblin, and laugh a queer, dry, knowing laugh to herself,a laugh like the scraping of reeds in a solitary place.

Fear vanished; neither staring eyes nor creeping pool could find her in the guardianship of the benevolent goblins.

He saw no Forest People except a little brown goblin who peered at him from some underbrush and then scuttled away into the darkness of denser brush.

Dey haf hong up nets, and dorns, to keep out der plague's-goblins off deir house.

He sprang upon his legs and drew a pistol from his girdle, which he discharged with unerring aim at the dreaded goblin.