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

"Like a respectable old grimalkin at the mercy of a crowd of boys and a tin kettle," added Jeannie, laughing.

From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

While Scott was reading, the sage grimalkin already mentioned had taken his seat in a chair beside the fire, and remained with fixt eye and grave demeanor, as if listening to the reader.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Moreover, he had hundreds of mice to his credit and no birds, for he was a good and wise grimalkin.

From The Faery Tales of Weir by Sholl, Anna McClure

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