Aldgate marked the abrupt limit of the old city; with it, the beginning of the East End, where the most squalid quarters of London are located.

Modern Chinese housing and facilities stand apart from the squalid quarters of the Tibetans.

The four of them piled again into the police-car and headed back for the squalid quarter of the city in which the room with the gadget's ghost was to be found.

He looked around again at the squalid quarters here, attached to the shaft of a space elevator, quarters no one else would want.

Imagine months at sea in cramped, squalid quarters, with many of the crew suffering from scurvy, and happening upon a mountainous isle exploding with fruit, water and women.

The neighborhood he represents, al-Nozha, is a squalid quarter of shattered buildings and dusty lanes.

There were institutional homes for the poor, criminal and disabled, and many people did live in tiny, squalid quarters, though perhaps no worse than families crowded into tenements downtown.

Within a few months the Germans herded nearly 200,000 Jews into two square miles of the city's most squalid quarter.

After early nightfall the yellow lamps would light up, here and there, the squalid quarter of the brothels.

Afterward they took him to a horrid and squalid quarter called La Juiverie, into which no Christian dare enter.