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"Fata morgana" Quotes from Famous Books

... about as deceptive as a fata morgana! What have you been doing, I ask you again, toward realizing this prospect and earning the money ...

— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... was going; but he turned to the book, and read the indicated passage. It was a part of the continuation of Orlando's adventure in the enchanted garden, when, himself pursued and scourged by La Penitenza, he was pursuing the Fata Morgana over rugged rocks ...

— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock

... liquid ether. I know not what effect of atmosphere or light it is that lifts an island from the sea by interposing that thin edge of lustrous white between it and the water. But this phenomenon to-day was perfectly exhibited. Like a mirage on the wilderness, like Fata Morgana's palace ascending from the deep, the pure and noble vision stayed suspense 'twixt heaven and ocean. At the same time the breeze failed, and we rowed slowly between Procida and Capo Miseno—a space in old-world history athrong ...

— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

Words linked to "Fata morgana" : mirage