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
An enormous grimalkin, almost a wild cat, comes rattling along the roof, down from the chimney-top, and Tom Tortoiseshell, leaping from love to war, tackles to the Red Rover in single combat.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 by Various
Safe in thy wired castle, grimalkin never could annoy thee.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
Even the sage grimalkin showed indubitable signs of joy, at the return of the youngster.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving
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 Daniel Scott
