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

Surely," said I, "surely that is a grimalkin at my lattice.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 23, 1890 by Various

The owner decided to have the grimalkin respectably buried in her garden, and a man named Willan dug a grave for it.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

Her upcoming had been supervised by a grimalkin governess who drew around the form of her young charge the awful circle of exclusiveness, intercourse with child-kind being strictly prohibited.

From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Maniates, Belle Kanaris

But still were wanting his grimalkin eyes, For which gray worsted stocking paint supplies.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst