No. 72 is certainly the grimiest of the houses in Bennett Square.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
As a matter of fact the Tchuktchis know nothing whatever about Russia, and even the Great White Tsar has less influence here than a skipper of the grimiest Yankee whaler.
"From Paris to New York by Land"
Harry de Windt
Violet Lane may have had its hedgerows and violets in a day long dead, precisely as hop vines may have flung their pale green bells over cottage paling, for both are far outside the old city limits; but to-day they are simply the narrowest of passages between the grimiest of buildings, given over to trade in its most sordid form, with never a green leaf even to recall the country hedgerows long since only memory.
"Prisoners of Poverty Abroad"
Helen Campbell