... There was an animation in the scene, a mirage of light, of which nothing now can give an idea, unless it be the fictitious splendor of a theatric spectacle... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...A herd of zebras in the mirage looked so exactly like elephants that Oswell began to saddle a horse in order to hunt them; but a sort of break in the haze dispelled the illusion...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...During their passage the mirage set before their eyes beautiful sheets of water, which quickly disappeared as they approached...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...95° in the air when the sun was obscured, and the mirage played the usual fantastic tricks...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...It rang down the curtain on the mirage whichonce a month comes to mock Chinde with memories of English villages,of well-kept lawns melting into the Thames, of London asphalt andflashing hansoms...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...Though we were in Africa, we knew that it was no mirage, which only appears on dry and sandy deserts...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...By this the mirage was destroyed, and the vast spectral image suddenly disappeared...
Mayne Reid 「The Giraffe Hunters」
...But he appears to have overlooked the fact that though animage of Venus formed by mirage would be fainter than the planet, itwould not be smaller...
Richard A. Proctor 「Myths and Marvels of Astronomy」
...There was a conspicuous mountain, which now borenorth-east about fifty miles away, and I fancied I saw the refractedtops of other ranges floating in the mirage...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
...To thesouth a vague and strange horizon was visible; it appeared flat, asthough a plain of great extent existed there, but as the mirage playedupon it, I could not make anything of it...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
...We saw several sandhill islands, some very high anddeeply red, to which the mirage gave the effect of their floating in anocean of water...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
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