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

Faith," said the subaltern, smiling in his turn, "the log may yet be split, and grimalkin lose his lives, if you often charge as madly as you did this morning.

From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore

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

Pinch its scut or bite its ears, and when it exclaims, "Miauw!" it is not a genuine rabbit, but a grimalkin in disguise.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892 by Various

It is the visage of grimalkin, outside of the window, where he appears to have posted himself for a deliberate watch.

From House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel