imp

• My suspicions focus on some coins supplied to me by Kirstunu, whom you may remember Well do I recall his imp-plant, Juax. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
• I will sit here and get up my one o'clock notes for the imp, and if you need me, tell me so The major bestowed a slow quizzical smile upon her and took up his pen. —  Andrew the Glad
• A little native imp was our guide, seduced by the gift of a German knife, value three-halfpence, and my Macassar boy Baderoon brought his chopper to clear the path if necessary We had to walk about half a mile along the beach, the ground behind the village being mostly swampy, and then turned into the forest along a path which leads to the native village of Wamma, about three miles off on the other side of the island. —  The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2
• Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wert not thou St. Vitus' imp--away, thou ague Advance, ye mates! —  Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
• This cardinal is an agreeable imp, and I must give him a kiss for his complaisance. —  The Daughter of an Empress

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