Noun

Then she saw pixies' — dozens and dozens of ' pixies — dancing and singing.

When she looked around, Mary saw four pixies' flying toward her. She had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit. Then the ' pixies turned around and attacked again.

The servant that had raised him, an elderly pixie' called Rolog, had died. On his deathbed he had called the young Captain to his side. Seeing the ' pixie dying had had no effect on him.

Tiffy froze as the two pixies looked directly into each other's eyes.

Then Tiffy raised her hand and said, “Hi, I'm Tiffy the Tooth Fairy.” Even though the other pixie lifted her hand too, she didn't answer.

Then a pixie appears in the visitor window, round face, big brown eyes framed in thick liner, a tiny turned-up nose, red lips, inch-long blue-black hair so popular with the avant-garde.

Petite and narrow-waisted, with a pixie flip of hair the exact color of coffee beans, Abigail could easily pass for sixteen in a pair of ripped jeans and an Abercrombie T-shirt.

Petite in the extreme, not even reaching five feet tall, Winchester at her most robust had approached one hundred pounds. No longer the bright-eyed, sophisticated pixie that Isaiah Taber had photographed so many years earlier, Winchester showed a different picture altogether as she lay dying, her fingers and toes knotted and knurled from years of destruction by the painful arthritis.

Like magic, Carla transformed from the dainty pixie into a hardcore, no-nonsense businesswoman right before his eyes.

Noun

A M. Berbiguier lately published an elaborate work, in three huge volumes, in which he demonstrated the existence of hobgoblins', described the proper manner of capturing and securing them, and took credit to himself for his zeal for the benefit of mankind, in allowing no day to pass without imprisoning, with his own hands, at least thirty '''hobgoblins'''. A writer of biographical notices of contemporary authors, who believed neither in M. Berbiguier's manner of catching '''hobgoblins''' nor in the existence of ' hobgoblins did not scruple to say that M. Berbiguier was mad, and upon this M. Berbiguier brought his action for libel; but unluckily, together with his action, he brought himself into Court, and established in a very few words the truth of the libel.

The monster goes unrecognized because he looks like a harmless, pudgy nobody rather than like a hobgoblin'. But he reveals his ' hobgoblin nature through music.

The eyes blinked out and he heard a faint grunt, followed by the sounds of the Hobgoblin scrambling further back into the tunnel, away from the faint sunlight and the Ur'hunglav's domain.

Under "Fallacies of Danger," then, is listed the subhead of "The Hobgoblin''' Argument, or, No Innovation'', in which the '''hobgoblin''' in question is ''anarchy''; which tremendous spectre has for its forerunner the monster ''innovation''." A hot button like this would presumably elicit a visceral response even from Hamilton whose aversion to the ' hobgoblin of parliamentary reform was apparently his sole unreasoning reflex.

However, the public seems to have been able to retain much of its sense of alarm about internal attacks even when the al-Qaeda hobgoblin doesn't actually carry any out.