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)
The tutor, also, who superintended my studies in the more advanced stage of my education, was just fitted to complete the fata morgana which was forming in my mind.
From The Crayon Papers by Irving, Washington
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
