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
This mirage, this fata morgana which is so often seen here, has given rise to one of the most beautiful of our North-German legends.
From Vineta The Phantom City by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
Could it be water, or was it only the mirage—the fata morgana?
From The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
Was it, perhaps, only an illusive dream that bantered us, only a fata morgana formed by the moonbeams?
From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel
