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fata morgana

[fah-tah mawr-gah-nah] / ˈfɑ tɑ mɔrˈgɑ nɑ /




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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

Before their eyes, as before Greeley in 1864, danced the fata morgana of a convention of all the States, talking, talking, talking.

From The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)

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

For years she has waded through the mire after a fata morgana, and the world laughs, and points its fingers at her.

From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Schubin, Ossip




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