"Then gave I her, -- so tutor'd by my art, --	 
A sleeping potion; which so took effect
As I intended, for it wrought on her
The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo
That he should hither come as this dire night,
To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
Being the time the potion's force should cease."
	-William Shakespeare, _Romeo and Juliet_

A particularly fat and ugly orc.

A particularly fat and ugly orc.  He seems to have scavenged 
a pair of rainbow-colored suspenders from somewhere.  They're
not helping.

A small, ugly minor demon.

A small, ugly minor demon.  Its fanged maw seems locked in a permanent
malign grin, and its horns protrude obscenely from its scaly pate.
"The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent 
for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, 
and to substitute in their place imps."
	-Martin Luther

A pulsating mass of acidic protoplasm. It can and will eat almost anything, and grows a little each time...

A pulsating mass of acidic protoplasm. It can and will eat almost 
anything, and grows a little each time...
"Beware of the Blob!
It creeps 
And leaps
and glides and slides 
Across the floor 
Right through the door 
And all around the wall, 
A splotch, a blotch..."
	-Burt Bacharach, "Beware of the Blob"

A giant worm, with unusually large teeth.

A giant worm, glistening with slime, with unusually large teeth.
You find yourself surprised that a worm should have teeth at all.
'While the angels, all pallid and wan,	 
  Uprising, unveiling, affirm	 
That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"	 
  And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.'
	-Edgar Allen Poe

A delicious, firm red fruit, tart to the tongue.

A delicious red or green fruit.

"MINERVA was the goddess of wisdom, but on one occasion she 
did a very foolish thing; she entered into competition with 
Juno and Venus for the prize of beauty. It happened thus: 
At the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis all the gods were 
invited with the exception of Eris, or Discord. Enraged 
at her exclusion, the goddess threw a golden apple among 
the guests, with the inscription, 'For the fairest.'"
	-Bullfinch's Mythology, Chap. XXVII. a.

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
	-Theodore Roosevelt

"Here it was that the ambassadors of the Samnites, finding him 
boiling turnips in the chimney corner, offered him a present of 
gold; but he sent them away with this saying; that he, who was 
content with such a supper, had no need of gold; and that he 
thought it more honourable to conquer those who possessed the 
gold, than to possess the gold itself."
	-Plutarch, "Marcus Cato"