goblin-beast

Updated: June 23, 2025

Bauman, utterly unnerved, and believing that the creature with which he had to deal was something either half human or half devil, some great goblin-beast, abandoned everything but his rifle and struck off at speed down the pass, not halting until he reached the beaver meadows where the hobbled ponies were still grazing.

Theodore Roosevelt - Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches