All sons but Richardsun of all those sons And can you let this little meteor, This ignis fatuus, this same wandering fire, This goblin of the night, this brand, this spark, Seem through a lanthorn greater than he is?

She remembered a picture she had somewhere seen of a little chattering goblin in a graveyard, and was struck with the resemblance.

Hour after hour rung from the cuckoo-clock in the hall, but still she lay awake, watching the curious shadows in the room, and exciting herself with recalling the tales of German goblins with which the courier had amused them the day before.

"A goblin like that has his odds against a dozen of us.

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

That was sure death to any goblin on whom neither lead nor steel would bite, and it killed the governor all right.

From the top of the cliff she looked back, and saw that he was still standinga squat, fantastic figure like a goblin out of a fairy-taleoutlined against the shining sea behind him, a blot upon the blue.

Soldiers had come down from the chow city, two-score li inland, and charging through the streets, hacking and slashing the infested air, had driven the goblins over the walls, with a great shout of victory.

Even when wild tempests swallow up the plains, And Boreas' blasts, big hail, and rains combine To shake the groves and mountains, would I sit, Pensively musing on th' outrageous crimes That wake Heaven's vengeance: at such solemn hours, Demons and goblins through the dark air shriek, While Hecat, with her black-browed sisters nine, Bides o'er the Earth, and scatters woes and death.

But the moment she was freed from one dread, she was seized by another; suspicion took the place of terror; and as soon as she heard the toiling of the goblins up the creaking staircase, she crept to the foot of it after them, and with no more compunction than a princess in a fairy-tale, set herself to listen.

She has the same power of hushing the wild goblin within me as you have, madam.

The German is no longer sympathising with the boy against the goblin, but rather with the goblin against the boy.

" "And thus," she said sadly, "you have gone on hating and spiting, deeming yourself a goblin without hope or aim; but now you feel that you have a Christian soul you will strive with evil, you will so love as to win love, you will pray and conquer.

In childhood, Bruce had been told many stories of ghosts and goblins by his Irish nurse.

I'm good as Susie to keep the goblins from gettin you.