imps

• "When I catch you, IE and Lacity-" But the Little imps were already beating a retreat. —  Centaur Aisle
• Expediency for micro-imps, given their inhuman perspective and miserly attitude toward expending muscular energy, usually assumed some baroque form. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
• He saw immediately how the mischief had been done; and dismissing all the inferior imps, asked the principal demon how he could have been so rash as to kill the young man. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• They endeavoured, but in vain, to discover who was the delinquent; and the shower of stones continuing for five days in succession, they came at last to the conclusion that the devil and his imps were alone the cause of it. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• At Baldarroch itself the belief was not quite so extravagant; but the farmer was so convinced that the devil and his imps were alone the cause of all the disturbance, that he travelled a distance of forty miles to an old conjuror, named Willie Foreman, to induce him, for a handsome fee, to remove the enchantment from his property. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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