Word: benightedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At Aix the benighted Jack boarded the train, having flown in hot pursuit of his runaway wife. Hugely flattered, she remembered to be cross with him; pitched promptly into the political battle, and continued hostilities through and in spite of another of those French railway accidents. Her father-in-law...
Judge Lindsey's opponent, like many another, refused to take Mr. Lindsey's arguments with a grain of sense. He made irrelevant jokes which amused the crowd, as: "I have read Judge Lindsey's book three times and I don't know yet just what this...
I spare you the translation of our remarks: they were not in the best lo-the-poor-immigrant manner. But at length I said-"Oh well, God is merciful even to this benighted land. The mantle of our Andreyev has fallen upon Eugene O'Neill; while he lives and...
But for the few hardy if benighted-souls who either have no taste for pre-game convivialities in the forenoon or who suffer from some other similarly grieyous affliction, the Vagabond will at least make a list which they might attend with benefit and pleasure this morning.
But here is another one of those frequent cases when Burn's famous works about the plans of mice and men holds true. Some will of course say that the Vagabond has been restricting himself solely to intellectual pursuits to ward off the wrath of those whose thunder bolts are...