grimalkin

• As an inmate of the family circle, they are never objected to by the most careful housekeeper; and the fat and pampered grimalkin, as it lies curled up on the hearth-rug, or reposes in the luxuriously cushioned chair, sheds an air of comfort and quiet about its vicinity that is felt by the most casual observer. —  Harper's Magazine
• This sage grimalkin was a favorite of both master and mistress, and slept at night in their room, and Scott laughingly observed, that one of the least wise parts of their establishment was that the window was left open at night for puss to go in and out. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• It is a significant sign of the widespread Southernism in all grades of town-society, especially the young and exuberant, the man-about-town class, the club-men, the jolly young bachelors, the tavern-politicians, that all the "comic" papers were on that side,--not only the now almost "legitimated" "Punch,"[C] a staid grimalkin which has outgrown the petulances of kittenhood, or, as it has been well nicknamed erewhile, "The Jackall of the Times," but equally the more free-and-easy "Fun," the plebeian "Comic News," the fashionable "Owl," and the short-lived "Arrow." —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
• He was humming in a low tone, like a grimalkin purring after a full meal of mice Rum for Indians, when they come Rum for the beggars, when they go That's the trick my grizzled lads To catch the cash and snare the foe What's your plan?" —  Lords of the North
• A cheerful fire blazes on the hearth; and at the moment grimalkin is purring on the rug. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1

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