| His creased brown skin throbbed with muscle, he was a hobgoblin, and failure was unacceptable in goblin society. |
| 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. |
| In England, the hobgoblin was as helpful a sprite as the brownie and was also known as Robin Goodfellow or Puck. |
| 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. |
| Never mind that, undaunted by the hobgoblin of consistency, they also argue the incommunicability of knowledge. |
| To the speechwriters, he was the hobgoblin of editors, demanding we cram in more statistics, more attacks, more examples. |
