The third room of the suite, Byron's dressing-room and study, was one of the haunts of the goblin friar who was heard stalking amid the dim cloisters or in the apartments above.
No goblin he, nor imp of sin, No crimes he'd ever known.
For many a laugh went through the vale, And some conviction too; Each thought some other goblin tale Perhaps was just as true.
But you'll go to-morrow and you'll keep on going until you find out what is behind those brown-green goblin spectacles.
Then he bent and brought his goblineyes to bear on the dark face.
It was as though one served the wicked goblin that stands over the door: Work to-day, eat to- morrow!
The child looked very droll in them; he was a little goblin who took everything in good part.
The first mound that I encountered belonged to a goblin splashing in his tub.
He glared at Smith, started to move, came back and took his torch, made a violent gesture with it which drenched the woods with goblin light.
If only he could have seen these beasts that filled the forest with their hob-goblin outcries--if he could have had a good look at the creatures who gave forth that weird, crazed, melancholy volume of sound!
Mrs. Knox put the goblin finger on her lips, as Philippa, still in her habit, slid into the room.
The Quaint against the Statuesque" - By competition lawful - The goblinbacked the Quaint Grotesque, The ghost the Grandly Awful.
For weeks the goblin weird and wild, That noble stripling haunted; For weeks the stripling stood and smiled, Unmoved and all undaunted.
He looked at the young girl: it was Annette, and still it was not Annette; even less was it the goblin phantom, as he had called her, he met near Grindelwald.
Johannes nodded farewell to him; and the little goblin waved his red cap, laid his hand on his heart, and then kissed his hand to him, to show that he was kindly disposed towards him, and wished him a happy journey.
Partly because of the immorality of this cat, and partly because it happens to have a long tail, it has the evil reputation of being a nekomata, or goblin cat.
While people are awake and watchful, such creatures make themselves small; but when everybody is fast asleep, then they assume their true goblin shape, and become monstrous.
With goblin gestures she wrung an arm from the body, wrenched it in twain, and, squatting down, began to devour the upper half.
The vision of the samurai and the goblin reminded Kinjuro of a queer tale, which he began to tell me as soon as the shadow-play was over.
Japan, like the tropical world, has its goblin trees.
As they looked, from the smoothly-cropped grass mound slowly arose an enormous steel-gray mushroom, like the dream of some goblin multiplied a thousandfold.
There was something terrible and malign in the slow rising of that goblin dome, in its sudden ferocity and in its noiseless disappearance.
Forward, therefore, he stepped; and behold, the goblin was but the reflection of himself in a tall mirror, which the obscurity and his own agitation had prevented him from discerning.
Fly, however, he would not, but would step forward rather, and be resolved what manner of goblin confronted him.
I have private doubts if the goblin Dutchmen ever have been seen, and I know of no reason why, if a ghost of that kind really comes back to earth, he should return without his head.
The coroners entered into a solemn compact to persist in ignoring Cooley or to regard him merely as an absurd and very indelicate goblin who had behaved in a manner wholly unworthy of a ghost with gentlemanly instincts.
There was not a sound within that he could hear above the clamour of the goblin night.
Why the plague could not the old goblin have told me about the well at once, without sending me all the way to Albany to hear a story that was to send me all the way back again?
After all," thought he, "the old goblin is in the right.
I could hardly have hoped, therefore, in the present age, when every source of ghost and goblin story is ransacked, that the origin of the tale would escape discovery.
The goblin went down into the hold of the ship, but soon came up with a walking-stick in his hand, and pointed it at the canoe.
So the goblin awoke, and Maui died for man in vain.
These verses carry us back to the egg-shell episode, from which the consideration of the means adopted to drive away the intrusive goblin has diverted us.
In the island of Lewis the custom was to dig a grave in the fields on Quarter Day and lay the goblin in it until the next morning, by which time it was believed the human babe would be returned.
The information given, thegoblin again replaced the true son; but the good priest was now able to deal effectually with the matter.
Then the goblin made a fire and flung him into it.
BAR`GUEST, a goblin long an object of terror in the N.
Shadow to goblin, goblin to shadow,--and the devil will have his own!
It was composed of round, fat trees, this pattern, with birds like goblin peacocks flying in mid-air between them.
As if enraged at these liberties taken with his boggartship, the goblin commenced a series of night disturbances.
Again the same goblin addresses him thus:— “Fairy king, attend and mark, I do hear the morning lark.
The Red Goblin is a spirit who haunts the Bargello, or was there of old in the prisons, nelle carceri, and he always foretold to every prisoner what his sentence would be before it was pronounced.
It was the Goblin of the Tower calling to him of the tower next beyond on the farther hill, and he said: "'How many ghosts there are out to-night!
And when extra hands were wanted they came, but all that came were only fairy hands, short at the wrist, the goblin remarking that it saved wine not to have mouths, et cetera.
This merry goblin of the Ponte Vecchio has a colleague not far away in the Spirito del Ponte alla Carraia, the legend of which is as follows.
Yet the Red Goblin was a jolly sprite when not crossed, and made great sport for the prisoners, who all knew him.
Here the goblinwas extremely strict, and drew the line distinctly.
With them is included Giotto, as appears by the following legend of "The Goblin of the Bell-Tower of Giotto.
The Signore grieved for a long time at the loss of his goblin friend, but he married happily, as had been predicted, and his life was long and prosperous.
A tiny flame shot out and shone upon her face; with her black eyes and black hair she looked like a goblin beneath this fitful illumination.
I have no faith in diablerie, nor am I a child to be influenced by a goblin tale.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goblin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: banshee; dwarf; elf; fairy; gnome; goblin; hob; hobgoblin; leprechaun; pixie; sprite; sylph
