| In England, the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck. |
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| His creased brown skin throbbed with muscle, he was a hobgoblin, and failure was unacceptable in goblin society. |
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| Never mind that, undaunted by the hobgoblin of consistency, they also argue the incommunicability of knowledge. |
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| The hob part of hobgoblin was a familiar form of Robin or Robert and became a standard name for a rustic person or a clown. |
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| I did mention consistency to Dr. Paul LeBlanc when I was on the FRCC, and he said that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. |
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| Consistency may be a hobgoblin of tiny minds, but the mental energy many citizens give to understanding politics tends to be sadly small. |
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| To the speechwriters, he was the hobgoblin of editors, demanding we cram in more statistics, more attacks, more examples. |
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| The German ubu, as well as the French bibou, is also used for bug-a-boo, hobgoblin, or any other fantastical, terrific nocturnal object. |
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| It is true that he had no vested interest in his own past thoughts and that no one ever better demonstrated that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. |
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| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. |
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| 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. |
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