grimalkin

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One only of all Charles Cholerton's cats escaped; a smoky grimalkin, she came slinking from a fiery window, her eyes lit with warm red fury.

From Time Magazine Archive

Low on the hearth my good grimalkin lies, His supple, glossy limbs outstretched along; Now gently sleeps with softly closèd eyes, Now, half awakened, purrs his even-song.

From Christmas Entertainments by Kellogg, Alice Maude

But, as the baited grimalkin turns to the worrying cur, so did the bull turn exactly with my movements, ever presenting his head, and nothing but his head.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

For my part, I cannot abide cats since my neighbor’s grimalkin stole my sausage.”

From The Proud Prince by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

This could not be, however; he was not there; for, while Hepzibah was looking, a strange grimalkin stole forth from the very spot, and picked his way across the garden.

From House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel