grimalkin
Example Sentences
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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
My little guide was still gazing wistfully after us, waving her shawl and holding tight to a coin which I trust no old grimalkin pried out of her hand.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 Henry Cabot Lodge
It is the visage of grimalkin, outside of the window, where he appears to have posted himself for a deliberate watch.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This could not be, however; he was not there; for, while Hepzibah was looking, a strange grimalkin stole forth from the very spot, and picked his way across the garden.
From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
