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)
Was it only a delusive appearance, a fata morgana of the desert?
From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel
We are beginning to believe Magdala to be a fata morgana, an ignis fatuus, which gets more and more distant the nearer we approach it.
From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
