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grimalkin

[gri-mal-kin, -mawl-] / grɪˈmæl kɪn, -ˈmɔl- /


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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 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

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

Low on the hearth my good grimalkin lies, His supple, glossy limbs outstretched along; Now gently sleeps with softly closèd eyes, Now, half awakened, purrs his even-song.

From Christmas Entertainments by Kellogg, Alice Maude

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