At sunset and dawn there were merry melodious flutings, long, sweet, mating-calls, carollings and bursts of husky, gnomish laughter.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
A gnomish little figure the child was, for at that time her head was large and her cropped hair bristled till she seemed a sort of brownie.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
He looked over at the water, then at her, with a curious dawning significance, that would almost have been impudent if it had not been immensely young and full of a kind of gnomish sympathy.
"The Woman With The Fan"
Robert Hichens