Shakespeare's "merry wanderer of the night"

Usage examples of puck.

At intervals the woods resounded with the crash of falling branches, and at every one of those sounds the jungli would leap almost out of his skin, springing, like Puck, from side to side of the fire-lane.

Malvern popped the datastorage and slipped the honey-colored hockey puck into his capacious scabbing vest.

Puck if he was not the knavish spirit that frightened the maidens of the villagery, that skimmed milk, and sometimes laboured in the green, and bootless made the housewife churn, and sometimes made the drink to bear no barm, and whether Puck did not mislead night wanderers, and then laugh at their harm, and do the work of hobgoblins?

He pulled the puck loose and passed it back to the right defenseman, the hardest and most accurate shooter on the team.

Dessert was an overbaked chocolate chip cookie the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.

The snowshoes were thick pucks of sandwiched superinsulator and the borrowed suit was a collection of bulky spheres that made him resemble a snowman with strings of beads for arms and legs.

Mistaking Lysander for Demetrius, Puck anoints the eyes of Lysander, who awakes and declares his love for Helena.

His terrible book was calledNot in My Net,and his humor was principally demonstrated by his charmless habit of referring to the women he’d slept with aspucks,thus enabling him to crack the joke “She was a great puck.

He and Logie, Puck and Atwood had been ordered to present themselves at the office block in Broadway, near St James's tube station, from which Bletchley Park was run.

He tripped and created so much confusion that Larry Wilson was able to pop the puck over the York goaltender with a backhand shot.

He dodged down a driveway and jumped a Cyclone fence into a yard inhabited by two cats, which began shooting around like fur-covered hockey pucks, their tails fat with terror, their eyes blazing.

They would be born so, costarred, puck and prig, the maryboy at Donnybrook Fair, the godolphinglad in the Hoy's Court.

The U-boat that had been sent to pick up Puck had been intercepted and sunk off the coast of Donegal, which was a double bonus, as the Germans probably now thought that the whole business had been a set-up all along, designed to trap one of their submarines.

The field of play was a barbed-wire-and-carnage-strewn no-one's-land between the two armies' trenches, with the trenches serving as goal-lines -- first player to put the puck past the others' goal-line .

All faces were now turned toward this puck, Danlo's and his hallmates', and, behind their own goal line, the tense faces of the Stone Row novices at the field's upper end.