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

The child, seeing grimalkin stalk stealthily into the room, points the finger and says “cat.”

From The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing by Clippinger, D. A. (David Alva)

Nancy herself sat in the corner, with her grey grimalkin on her shoulder.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Stables, Gordon

A concert of singing mice with a savage and hungry old grimalkin as leader of the orchestra!

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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