fata morgana
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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 Mrs. Chapman Coleman
To Quackenboss only it remained an unexplained apparition; and he might have mistaken it for the fata morgana.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
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 Stewart Edward White
