Eric had never seen a goblin before, but he had no fear of goblins, and so this one did not bother him at all.

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.

" "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.

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.

The servants will tell you that the sparrow was killed and eaten by a rat, but if you rise softly next night when you hear the sound of feeding, and shut the windows, you will find a goblin hanging from the ceiling in the morning, hideous beyond the power of words to tell.

this same Redcap rogue Runs like hob goblin up and down the heath.

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

Yet he seriously discussed the truth of second-sight; he carefully investigated the Cock-lane ghosta goblin who anticipated some of the modern phenomena of so-called "spiritualism," and with almost equal absurdity; he told stories to Boswell about a "shadowy being" which had once been seen by Cave, and declared that he had once heard his mother call "Sam" when he was at Oxford and she at Lichfield.

As I was saying, that was a clever bluff of yoursI mean the gunboat goblin.

In this land of faery, is it right to neglect the goblins?

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The mother washes and decks out the dirty or careless child, but no one can ask her to wash and deck out a goblin with a heart like hell.