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
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
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)
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)
