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
"And you say, my son, that I was deceived by a fata morgana" exclaimed the queen, hurrying forward with outstretched arm.
From Frederick the Great and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
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)
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)
