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
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
"And you say, my son, that I was deceived by a fata morgana" exclaimed the queen, hurrying forward with outstretched arm.
From Frederick the Great and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
There is a fata morgana, that throws into the air a pictured land, and the deceived eye trusts till the visionary shadows glide away.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac
