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

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

A concert of singing mice with a savage and hungry old grimalkin as leader of the orchestra!

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

But her amiable heart could not survive the shock, for, after pining three months, refusing boiled liver and new milk, poor grimalkin was found "dead upon the green mound that covered her beloved mistress's remains."

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