bottle-imp

The Malays have a bottle-imp, the polong, which will take no other sustenance than the blood of its owner, but it rewards him by aiding him in carrying out revengeful purposes.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

So that his calculations are inaccurate in your case, the balance is upset; you see, always the little bottle-imp bobbing up again.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

As it was, he there remained "bottled up," until Grant's peculiar strategy had swung him round to Petersburg; and then the "bottle-imp" was released.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

The Malays have a bottle-imp, the polong, which will take no other sustenance than the blood of its owner, but it rewards him by aiding him in carrying out revengeful purposes.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

"Know it, my sweet lump of charcoal; I'd know it among a thousand, if ye'd only use it in its own pretty natural tones; but, if you _will_ go and screech like a bottle-imp, you know," said Corrie, remonstratively,

Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader 1859

"Know it, my sweet lump of charcoal; I'd know it among a thousand, if ye'd only use it in its own pretty natural tones; but if you _will_ go and screech like a bottle-imp, you know," said Corrie, remonstratively,

Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific 1859

"Now, then, young bottle-imp, what did you mean by that?"

Fighting the Flames 1859

I devoured it at first with the same avidity with which one might welcome a bottle-imp, who at the hour of one's dulness turned up out of the carpet and offered you delights new and old for nothing but a tether on your soul: and with a like horror, boy though I was, I recoiled from it when any better moment came.

The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847