"When Peleus, some distance away, saw him torn apart by the frightful wound he shouted: “Accept this tribute to the dead, at least, Crantor, dearest of youths, ” and with his powerful arm, he hurled his ash spear, at full strength, at Demoleon.  It ruptured the ribcage, and stuck quivering in the bone. The centaur pulled out the shaft minus its head (he tried with difficulty to reach that also) but the head was caught in his lung. The pain itself strengthened his will: wounded, he reared up at his enemy and beat the hero down with his hooves. Peleus received the resounding blows on helmet and shield, and defending his upper arms, and controlling the weapon he held out, with one blow through the arm he pierced the bi-formed breast.'"

Reputedly the creation of an ancient demon-god, kobolds are small goblin-like creatures with canine heads.

No one knows where kobolds originated.  Some say they were the creation 
of an ancient demon-god, while others think they are household spirits
gone bad.  Kobolds look likesmall, greyish creatures with canine heads.  
Whatever their origin, this one is not happy to see you.
"The Parts Septentrionall are with these Sp'ryts Much haunted..
About the places where they dig for Oare. The Greekes and Germans 
call them Cobali."
	-Heywood, Hierarch. ix. 568, circa 1635

I see Egypt and the Egyptians -- I see the pyramids and obelisks;
I look on chisel'd histories, songs, philosophies, cut in slabs
   of sand-stone, or on granite-blocks;
I see at Memphis mummy-pits, containing mummies, embalm'd, swathed 
   in linen cloth, lying there many centuries;	 
I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the side-drooping
   neck, the hands folded across the breast."
	-Walt Whitman, "Salut au Monde"