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  • This individual, wearing a handsome illusory body to screen hideous deformities, toyed with the humans while his horde of goblinesque subjects projected hatred and fear of the interlopers, demanding their death.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • Only when she reached the end of the long avenue and circled around among the squat black tents of the humbler folk did she succumb at last to temptation in the shape of a goblinesque little maiden with thick blonde braids and a pert scarlet hennin, who offered flagons of carved myrtlewood filled with a marvelous perfume distilled from forest flowers.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • Mary, who was beginning to develop civic pride, told him they were goblinesque.

    The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

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