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
He had seen such visions, such fata morgana, that appeared not unfrequently on this coast, many a time, and had hitherto smiled at such illusions.
From Mohammed Ali and His House by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.
It took the place of the faith he felt slipping from him—the faith that ever he would see the fata morgana luring him out into the Silent Places.
From The Silent Places by White, Stewart Edward
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
