hob-goblin

IF CONSISTENCY IS THE hob-goblin of small minds, no one could accuse Ross Perot of lacking brainpower. over the course of the NAFTA controversy, he has offered contradictory comments on issues ranging from free trade to his lobbying pursuits.

Perot: Plalying Both Sides Badly 2008

A very small man appeared like a hob-goblin out of a dark corner.

Five Go To Demon's Rock Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1983

As far as I remember, Emerson at one time wrote: "A foolish consistency is the hob-goblin of a little mind."

A Soldier Looks At Business 1963

I seemed to have engendered within myself a hob-goblin.

Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

"I'll put me on my great carnation nose, and wrap me in a rousing calf-skin suit, and come like some hob-goblin."

The Peace Egg and a Christmas Mumming Play 1887

"Why have you come to raise a disturbance in my theater?" asked the showman of Pinocchio in the gruff voice of a hob-goblin suffering from

Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Various 1865

There’s a hob – hob-goblin, 20 feet high! wrapp’d in

Act I 1823

_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!

The Flaming Jewel 1899

_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!

The Flaming Jewel 1899

One of them was Row-ena Quarrelena Fightena Scrapena; the other, "Jerry paused impressively," was our precious hob-goblin, Miss Cairns. "

Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Pauline Lester