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

A cheerful fire blazes on the hearth; and at the moment grimalkin is purring on the rug.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The owner decided to have the grimalkin respectably buried in her garden, and a man named Willan dug a grave for it.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

Safe in thy wired castle, grimalkin never could annoy thee.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell