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

But, as the baited grimalkin turns to the worrying cur, so did the bull turn exactly with my movements, ever presenting his head, and nothing but his head.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

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.

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 Watson, William Davy

An enormous grimalkin, almost a wild cat, comes rattling along the roof, down from the chimney-top, and Tom Tortoiseshell, leaping from love to war, tackles to the Red Rover in single combat.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 by Various