In one angle, however, he remarked a window which seemed an exception to the surrounding squalidness.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.
"Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus"
Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
It was morning, I remember, when I thus awoke to understanding; I had forgotten the particulars of what had happened and only felt as if some great misfortune had suddenly overwhelmed me; but when I looked around and saw the barred windows and the squalidness of the room in which I was, all flashed across my memory and I groaned bitterly.
"Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus"
Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley