It meant to the losing people: "Get after the other fellows and beat them in spite of all the imps of the lower regions!
As it happened, however, the imps were just then away in the meadow, hunting mice.
The imps felt themselves great heroes, but if it had not been for that red squirrel, the owl, sleepy though he was, would certainly have got one of them.
The farmer himself and his hired hands paid no attention to them, but the boy, the one who had prevented there being three imps instead of two, he was tremendously interested.
But its hat was packed with straw, and the imps found it was a pleasant game pulling the straws out through a couple of holes in the crown, and strewing them over the strawberry bed.
From his window, which overlooked the garden, he had seen what liberties the imps took with the scarecrow, so he realized there was no help for him in scarecrows.
But the two black imps of Pine-Top were apparently, for the time at least, exempted from it.
When he saw that the imps also took such an interest in it, eating the berries instead of the grubs, he began to get annoyed.
Such, however, was his natural goodness, that he steadily refused to be perverted, maintaining a dignified silence amid the jesting and ribaldry of the imps around, and invariably declining to join in any of their misconduct.
Once, when a mere boy, I caught one of the little imps at work, and watched her for several minutes without dreaming that I had been looking at a real fairy all this time.
Many a man on the plains could hev held his own ag'inst the painted imps ef he could hev reached water.
His eyes yet heavy with sleep, it seemed to him in spite of himself that there must be something in the Little Giant's suggestion that imps and demons on the great peaks resented their presence.
What a tale these Imps could tell us of remote ages when they were flung aside as useless in the evolution of things!
For those imps in human form that endeavor to detract from the honor belonging to the wives of the country there ought to be no commiseration whatever.
That poor thin female with such very scanty clothing is hardly a cheerful object on a Scotch winter's day, and as for those little naked imps they would make anyone shiver, even in August.
First thing I see is you, stretched out in a pool o' blood, with a couple of those yellow imps just gettin' to work on you.
The blind, malignant imps that control us wretched humans," he answered.
He stood with his back towards her, while a large variety of separate imps in his brain assured him that he was an unmitigated fool.
Once again the imps knocked tauntingly, but Vane only smiled gravely and shook his head.
And then the imps grin and chuckle worse than ever.
The gray sky was illumined with fiery banners, while, like scarlet-clothed imps at a carnival, the flames leaped and danced among the twigs and smaller branches.
Rose with soft reproach, but her voice trembled, and the imps were subjugated only outwardly.
Then, to make it sure, Twiggs had come riding like the devil's imps with some new warning from Cynthia.
But under the coat my heart was stewing, and I would not have gone that way if the devil and hisimps had been riding the other.
I think the devil's imps sleeping somewhere must have heard that whooping.
He said a sentinel watched to see if a man set his heart on a thing, and if he did the sentinel gave some sign, whereupon the devil's imps swarmed up to break that thing in pieces.
As the curtain rises the two IMPS are seated on the floor, each with a section of harness, the bells of which they are industriously polishing.
Before God, and all the imps of hell I'll not meddle with it.
Yes, yes--he or fate, the imps of Satan or the elemental passion born in me.
Ef prayers fum niggers is answered mine was heard in hell, en old Scratch en all his imps er darkness was managin' it.
The horticultural kingdom must contend with imps of death until garnered safely in the harvest.
Still another scientist tells us: "The microscope shows that these murderous imps appear to have been made to inflict the most excruciating torture upon their victims.
You must transform the Imps into something that is not alive.
Whenever Imp Olite or Imp Udent or Imp Ertinent comes here to bother us, I and my family run into the house and lock all the doors and windows, and we dare not venture out again until the Imps have gone away.
Illustration] [Illustration] But the Imps were now angry and had no intention of behaving.
Princess Ozma was grieved to hear this report and the little Wizard shook his head gravely and said the naughty Imps deserved to be punished.
The spirits of the Imps are still in the buttons, and after a time they will repent and be sorry for their naughtiness.
If strangers pass through the valley the Imps jeer at them and make horrid faces and call names, and often they push travelers out of the path or throw stones at them.
And the man replied: "We are happy except for three mischievous Imps that live in yonder valley and often come here to annoy us.
Instantly the three Imps became three bushes--of a thorny stubby kind--with their roots in the ground.
Thereafter the three Imps will become good citizens of the Land of Oz and I think you will find they will prove faithful subjects of our beloved Princess Ozma.
At this the Impslaughed boisterously and began running around in a circle and kicking dust upon the Royal Princess, who cried in a sharp voice: "Wizard, do your duty!
We have accomplished nothing, for the pig Imps would annoy travelers as much as the real Imps.
Their clothing fitted snugly to their bodies and limbs and the Imps were so small in size that at first Ozma did not consider them at all dangerous.
Jack said nothing, and two red sulky faces were hidden in the dark, watching candle after candle sputter, brighten, and twinkle, till the trembling shadows began to flit away like imps afraid of the light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
