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

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

From Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey by Irving, Washington

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 Browning, William Ernst

Lady Morgan tells a story of an "amiable and intelligent" grimalkin, which belonged to a young girl who was subject to epileptic fits.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829 by Various

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 Scott, Daniel