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
Oh! they have the same sort of deception at sea," declared Jack; "only sailors call it the fata morgana.
From Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
He had seen such visions, such fata morgana, that appeared not unfrequently on this coast, many a time, and had hitherto smiled at such illusions.
From Mohammed Ali and His House by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.
The tutor, also, who superintended my studies in the more advanced stage of my education, was just fitted to complete the fata morgana which was forming in my mind.
From The Crayon Papers by Irving, Washington
