fata morgana
Example Sentences
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In it he wrote: “I saw the iceberg, looming high/ and cold, like a cold fata morgana,/ it drifted slowly, irrevocably,/ white, nearer to me.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
He checks Bernstein under "mirage, especially as observed in the Strait of Messina" and finds fata morgana.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tutor, also, who superintended my studies in the more advanced stage of my education, was just fitted to complete the fata morgana which was forming in my mind.
From The Crayon Papers by Irving, Washington
You have been with me from my manhood, the fata morgana that laughed at my love of other creatures.
From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Herrick, Robert
The whole thing had been a fata morgana; it had now vanished forever.
From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór
