pitch-darkness

His pupils, already adjusted to nearly pitch-darkness, opened even wider to take in the greenish luminosity of the slime covering every inch of the tiny passageway.

...And Nail 2010

No emergency lights alleviated the pitch-darkness.

Demon From The Dark Kresley Cole 2010

Feeling even more nervous now, Cammy pushed the outer door closed behind them so they were in pitch-darkness.

Loser/Queen Jodi Lynn Anderson 2010

I lay in the pitch-darkness, listening to the noises of the prison, running through all that had happened that day, my first day in captivity, fearful that I would never sleep.

I’m Still Standing SHOSHANA JOHNSON 2010

I would not have cared to be left alone there in pitch-darkness.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

The Thieves by Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Mala'ikah my translation: It is the night; all the borders sank in its pitch-darkness and it wrapped the existence

Monday, May 28, 2007 As'ad 2007

I felt that I was bruised, and that the berth was unusually hard and cold; and, after groping about in the pitch-darkness, I found that I had been thrown out of it upon the floor, a fact soon made self-evident by my being rolled across the cabin, a peculiarly disagreeable course of locomotion.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

It is the night; all the borders sank in its pitch-darkness and it wrapped the existence

Thursday, June 21, 2007 As'ad 2007

The Thieves by Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaki'ah my translation: It is the night; all the borders sank in its pitch-darkness and it wrapped the existence

Monday, July 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

And I doubt not it was the noise of this blundering progress which brought the Pict upon me, for he could not have seen me in that pitch-darkness.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005