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 E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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 Ossip Schubin
I tried fata morgana, mirage, parhelion, and whatever I had learned of recognized illusion, but in vain sought satisfaction, or anything pointing in the direction of satisfaction.
From The Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald
