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

Was it, after the sleepless night, because of that exhaustion and that last spurring, an atmospheric phenomenon, an hallucination, an illusion, a fata morgana?

From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis

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)

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