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

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

Moreover, he had hundreds of mice to his credit and no birds, for he was a good and wise grimalkin.

From The Faery Tales of Weir by Sholl, Anna McClure

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

When the person appointed to feed grimalkin went with her breakfast next day, no traces of her or her kitten were to be found.

From Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits by Landseer, T.