A grimalkin, that is to say, a Cat, went out one night to a certain garden, in search of what she might devour, but found nothing and became weak for the excess of cold and rain that prevailed that night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Even the most grumpy grimalkin declared it was a beautiful sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories] Reference

A cheerful fire blazes on the hearth; and at the moment grimalkin is purring on the rug.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference

A related word is grimalkin, referring to an old female cat or an ill-tempered old woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: My Bad.] Reference

Moreover, he had hundreds of mice to his credit and no birds, for he was a good and wise grimalkin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faery Tales of Weir] Reference

Of all the horrors, perhaps the grimalkin women, her contemporaries, were the most repellent to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

To let the peculiar grimalkin-grimace come on her face, the most weird grimalkin-twang come into her voice?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

Pinch its scut or bite its ears, and when it exclaims, "Miauw!" it is not a genuine rabbit, but a grimalkin in disguise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892] Reference

And they remained these grey-ribbed grimalkins, dressed in elegant clothes, the grimalkin howl even passing into their smart chatter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plumed Serpent] Reference

Lady Morgan tells a story of an "amiable and intelligent" grimalkin, which belonged to a young girl who was subject to epileptic fits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

Dame Webber, or grimalkin, or the tea-kettle in good-will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of a Traveller] Reference

He would fain arrest every hawk or owl or grimalkin that ventures abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter Sunshine] Reference

He was humming in a low tone, like a grimalkin purring after a full meal of mice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lords of the North] Reference

'I reverted to my pillow, and fell into a train of conjectures touching the grimalkin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6] Reference

Even the sage grimalkin showed indubitable signs of joy, at the return of the youngster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference

The child, seeing grimalkin stalk stealthily into the room, points the finger and says "cat.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing] Reference

Maizy, the family grimalkin, wasn't as fast as she used to be, but she was still very good at catching mice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference

"Like a respectable old grimalkin at the mercy of a crowd of boys and a tin kettle," added Jeannie, laughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.] Reference

Hepzibah was looking, a strange grimalkin stole forth from the very spot, and picked his way across the garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of the Seven Gables] Reference

Beside the Nile, grimalkin reached his apotheosis, for he was worshipped while alive and mummified in his death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference

It is the visage of grimalkin, outside of the window, where he appears to have posted himself for a deliberate watch.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of the Seven Gables] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Seven Gables] Reference

For my part, I cannot abide cats since my neighbor's grimalkin stole my sausage. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Proud Prince] Reference

Lordship himself being the great grimalkin to whom they are to be given over to be devoured.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodstock] Reference

"Faith," said the subaltern, smiling in his turn, "the log may yet be split, and grimalkin lose his lives, if you often charge as madly as you did this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spy] Reference

Bird of the silent wing and expansive eye, grimalkin in feathers, feline, mousing, haunting ruins "and towers, and mocking the midnight stillness with thy uncanny cry!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference

Such as will make grimalkin prate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pipe and Can] Reference

This grimalkin has a very ugly look.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of the Seven Gables] Reference

Self-love, grimalkin of the human heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 02: Additional Poems (1837-1848)] Reference

But still were wanting his grimalkin eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference

Where'er she trod, grimalkin purr'd around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference

27. grimalkin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

Where’er she trod, grimalkin purr’d around.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference