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
Oh! they have the same sort of deception at sea," declared Jack; "only sailors call it the fata morgana.
From Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
As a background to this picture lies the Vettern—the bottomless lake as the commonalty believe—with its transparent water, its sea-like waves, and in calm, with "Hegring," or fata morgana on its steel-like surface.
From Pictures of Sweden by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Was it only a delusive appearance, a fata morgana of the desert?
From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel
