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
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
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
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
