Sentence:  I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming , `` O Gogol , O Chekhov , O Thackeray and Dickens , what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks , a birdbath , and three composition <WSD>gnomes</WSD> with long beards and red mobcaps '' ? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure