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

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

Before their eyes, as before Greeley in 1864, danced the fata morgana of a convention of all the States, talking, talking, talking.

From The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)

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