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
Was it only a delusive appearance, a fata morgana of the desert?
From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel
The whole thing had been a fata morgana; it had now vanished forever.
From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór
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 MacDonald, George
