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
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
The whole thing had been a fata morgana; it had now vanished forever.
From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór
Was it, after the sleepless night, because of that exhaustion and that last spurring, an atmospheric phenomenon, an hallucination, an illusion, a fata morgana?
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis
