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
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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 Louis Couperus
Life is synonymous with suffering; positive happiness a fata morgana, an illusion.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
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