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
Oh! they have the same sort of deception at sea," declared Jack; "only sailors call it the fata morgana.
From Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
"Then it seems that your majesty has followed a fata morgana," said the prince, with a forced smile; "for, as you see, I am alone, and no one else is present in the conservatory."
From Frederick the Great and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
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 Reid, Mayne
