| If people want to believe in tooth fairies, or leprechauns, or hobgoblins, or taniwha, or whatever, it is their right to do that. |
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| It was a time when witches did mischief while spiteful fairies and hobgoblins roamed about. |
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| Though Mr McCallum does admit, and even provide evidence for, the existence of hobgoblins and faeries. |
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| Imagination, then plays upon our fears when there is feeble light, making us see ghouls and hobgoblins in every shadow that moves. |
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| The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. |
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| By the time the hobgoblins and ghouls are out and about on the 31st it is rising less than four hours after sunset. |
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| It is a time when the very mention of witches, gnomes, hobgoblins and ogres is enough to conjure up a fantasy world populated with a multitude of such creatures. |
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| God has His own Treblinka, with devils, hobgoblins, demons, angels of death. |
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| It was in those ways that beings such as witches, hobgoblins, fairies, and demons came to be associated with the day. |
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| Gaffle turned round and stared at the oncoming horde of hobgoblins. |
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| In his childhood Martin was afraid of the dark, of ghosts and hobgoblins, and his fear of attack by the threatening unknown later came to surface in his art. |
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| But I wasn't about to stand up to a rampaging bunch of hobgoblins anyway. |
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| Both books try to correct this irrational view of the world, reassuring readers that most of the hobgoblins by which they are menaced are unnecessarily frightening. |
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| Certainly, free software has no monopoly on unrealistic requirements, vague specifications, poor resource management, insufficient design phases, or any of the other hobgoblins already well known to the software industry. |
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| An anecdote about young surfers in Maui is followed by some management lessons drawn from the World of Warcraft, an online game involving swords and hobgoblins. |
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| But, even after the rating downgrade, it isn't primarily a crisis of debt ceilings shattered, government spending gone wild, or any of the other hobgoblins that have dominated the discussion in the nation's capital. |
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| Listen hard and you may hear them, the gruesome hobgoblins and shabby boogeymen that rattle around in the basement of Phelim McDermott's imagination. |
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