Meanings of black imp in English

I should like to give that little black imp a good shaking.

Fan that fire, you little black imp, you!

He seemed at that moment to wear the aspect of a black imp leading me to destruction.

This is the black imp's fault!

Like the black imp he is, Blacky flew over the tree-tops, his sharp eyes watching for something interesting below.

Here now, you black imp!

He looked like a demon to Dot in the half-light-a black imp mounted on a black mare riding to perdition.

The little black imp at the back of her mind kept whispering and whispering, till at last she was forced to listen.

You have all seen that cruel old Thomas Cat, the black imp, with brass eyes that shine in the dark like automobile lamps.

All the same, the letter which Mrs. Meadows received by the following morning's post was not at all calculated to melt the " black imp" further.

Harkaway, turning suddenly round, discovered the two black imps making sad havoc with the sweets.

There were stories of white ladies and black imps, of bloodstained passages and magic stones.

The long music notes had legs and arms and were dancing about like little black imps.

But the two black imps of Pine-Top were apparently, for the time at least, exempted from it.

These black imps is mighty suspicious.

I wint in there to tell th' black imps t' come out, but they're not there to tell!