One wild horrified glance at the dirt, squalor, and total benightedness that met me on every side, and I trembled in every limb with suppressed emotion and the frantic longing to get back to Caddagat which possessed me.
"My Brilliant Career"
Miles Franklin
She could not understand half of what she deciphered and typed for him, and because she could not understand she realized the depth of her benightedness.
"Starr, of the Desert"
B. M Bower
Gyp had long struck me as mistress, in her levity, of one of the happiest of forms-the only objection to my use of which was a certain extraordinary benightedness on the part of the Anglo-Saxon reader.
"The Awkward Age"
Henry James