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
A cheerful fire blazes on the hearth; and at the moment grimalkin is purring on the rug.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
Dame Gudhan speedily followed grimalkin, tottering along on a stick, and muttering to herself, chewing her rage as a horse champs the bit.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
The ubiquitous collector of rags and bottles and rabbits' skins was always anxiously inquiring for the heads also, and the natural conclusion was that, thanks to the latter, stewed grimalkin passed muster as gibelotte.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
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 William Ernst Browning
