How To Use Hobgoblin In A Sentence
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In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie.
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It is a time when the very mention of witches, gnomes, hobgoblins and ogres is enough to conjure up a fantasy world populated with a multitude of such creatures.
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Imagination, then plays upon our fears when there is feeble light, making us see ghouls and hobgoblins in every shadow that moves.
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But this encompassment of her own characterization, based on shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her, was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy -- a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Bradford: But it's meaning is subject to diverse interpretations and when asked where this hobgoblin has been actually applied we are told Iraq … Iraq … Iraq … If you are looking for broader applications save yourself the time and effort.
14 Important Science Questions
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The fairy asked Puck if he was not the knavish spirit that frightened the maidens of the villagery, that skimmed milk, and sometimes laboured in the green, and bootless made the housewife churn, and sometimes made the drink to bear no barm, and whether Puck did not mislead night wanderers, and then laugh at their harm, and do the work of hobgoblins?
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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Its leaves are used in divination to find out witches, thieves, liars, etc., and it is the chosen haunt of ghosts and hobgoblins of all sorts – hence its frequent appearance in folk-lore.
Tales of the Punjab
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Gaffle turned round and stared at the oncoming horde of hobgoblins.
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But as Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Marshall Auerback: What Does the Earthquake Mean to Japan's Fiscal Future?
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Some frighten their children with beggars, bugbears or hobgoblins if they cry, or be otherwise unruly
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A romantic historical account, it told of a hobgoblin, the ugliest of his maligned kindred but valorous of heart, who fell in love with a beautiful princess of Ilnumin, one of the fallen cities of the moon elves of the Elven Age.
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In the interest of avoiding such untenable consequences, the notion that a haunting is a condition which can and should be ascertained upon reasonable inspection of the premises is a hobgoblin which should be exorcised from the body of legal precedent and laid quietly to rest ...
First Department
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But I wasn't about to stand up to a rampaging bunch of hobgoblins anyway.
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Best thing about the end of The Apprentice, apart from the fifth word in that previous phrase, was the aftershow thing, in which the contestants were permitted to show us that they weren't quite such frotnabulous hobgoblin cliche-crammed tits as the show had had us believe.
Rewind TV: The Hour; The Apprentice; Show Me the Funny; Imagine; Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet; Twenty Twelve – review
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Never mind that, undaunted by the hobgoblin of consistency, they also argue the incommunicability of knowledge.
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In his childhood Martin was afraid of the dark, of ghosts and hobgoblins, and his fear of attack by the threatening unknown later came to surface in his art.
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HC:And lo , let the hobgoblin Ritual of Manhood commence!
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It helpfully reasserts the book's argument; and by its resort to invective — "jeremiad," "screeds," "emotionally gratifying," "capitalist hobgoblins," etc. — his letter offers an instructive insight into Reich's own thought processes.
'Supercapitalism': An Exchange
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A group of hobgoblins emerged from behind him.
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MitS:Inorder to be a hobgoblin leader, you need to be an offical member of the hobgoblin tribe.
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These mischievous Dubbies bear much resemblance in their natures and habits to those sprites which Heywood, in his Heirarchie, calls pugs or hobgoblins:
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
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Bugaboo is from the archaic term bogy boo -- a term for a hobgoblin or anything that haunts, bothers, bugs, harasses, irks, annoys, or frightens, like the bogeyman.
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Still these doubts (hobgoblins who perch on my bedstead at night) don't keep me from trying.
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Though Mr McCallum does admit, and even provide evidence for, the existence of hobgoblins and faeries.
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“My good person,” said I, “what do you mean by this foolish hobgoblinry?
The Bible in Spain
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And will Burgess promise "morning in Seattle"? hobgoblin
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It is unforgettable -- for the boy and for readers -- as are the magical reappearance of the berserker Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a slave girl from Jack's village, and the eager-to-marry-her Bugaboo (a hobgoblin king); kelpies; yarthkins; and elves (not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the fallen angels of legend).
The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer: Book summary
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If people want to believe in tooth fairies, or leprechauns, or hobgoblins, or taniwha, or whatever, it is their right to do that.
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By the time the hobgoblins and ghouls are out and about on the 31st it is rising less than four hours after sunset.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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If people want to believe in tooth fairies, or leprechauns, or hobgoblins, or taniwha, or whatever, it is their right to do that.
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My good person," said I, "what do you mean by this foolish hobgoblinry?
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
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In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck.
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If people want to believe in tooth fairies, or leprechauns, or hobgoblins, or taniwha, or whatever, it is their right to do that.
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Thomas took her by the weak side, and usually arrested her "light-horse gallop of clish ma-claver" by some specious story of ghost or hobgoblin adventures, with which he had been detained.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831
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Familiaris, though they attained great dignity of conception, and were the centre of the family life, and to some extent of the family morality, never quite rose to the position of full-grown gods; while among the spirits of the field the wildness and impishness of character associated with Faunus and his companion Inuus -- almost the cobolds or hobgoblins of the flocks -- reflects clearly the old 'animistic' belief in the natural evilness of the spirits and their hostility to men.
The Religion of Ancient Rome
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In England the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck.
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But it's meaning is subject to diverse interpretations and when asked where this hobgoblin has been actually applied we are told Iraq … Iraq … Iraq … If you are looking for broader applications save yourself the time and effort.
14 Important Science Questions
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I don't think you have a good grasp of either Singer's or the Bible's moral philosophy -- or of what the "hobgoblin" quote meant, for that matter.
Questioning "dignity."
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It is so lovely to view the sweet innocence of the ghouls and hobgoblins who visit our thresholds, calling out ‘trick or treat’, often accompanied by imaginative verse of their own making.
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His creased brown skin throbbed with muscle, he was a hobgoblin, and failure was unacceptable in goblin society.
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It was a time when witches did mischief while spiteful fairies and hobgoblins roamed about.
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Of course, American politics is currently such that cutting taxes is far more popular than actual achievement. hobgoblin
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It is a time when the very mention of witches, gnomes, hobgoblins and ogres is enough to conjure up a fantasy world populated with a multitude of such creatures.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds but is quite basic to the development of selves and society.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE
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Claremont kind of petered out on X-Men, David left Hulk in a huff, the Hobgoblin storyline didn't even get resolved in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man.
My personal top ten best/favorite runs list, plus far too much analysis of the Top 100 List! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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Star Linda Blair suggested that only a child who was Catholic would have succeeded in the role because to her, the Devil was real, not some imaginary hobgoblin.
Michael Giltz: Halloween DVDs: The Exorcist, Psycho, Troll 2 and More
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He was a delicate child, shy, sensitive, elflike, who wandered through the woods near his home, in Sussex, on the lookout for sprites and hobgoblins.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
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Harris clearly knows it is a lying scare story, an imaginary "hobgoblin" designed to keep us alarmed & easily led & whatever his own witticisms, is desperate to censor any dissent.
A Place to Stand
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
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Is it "Have an affair with a staffer, foreigner, or sex worker!"? hobgoblin
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