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
It took the place of the faith he felt slipping from him—the faith that ever he would see the fata morgana luring him out into the Silent Places.
From The Silent Places by White, Stewart Edward
The snow was fresh and new, but yet the snow was not real nature to her, who always saw her distant landscape, like a fata morgana, quivering in pure incandescence of light.
From Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel by Couperus, Louis
You have been with me from my manhood, the fata morgana that laughed at my love of other creatures.
From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Herrick, Robert
