And again, when about to be struck, he sank down, and a mirage filled the place so that they could not see him, for things did not look the same.
A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied.
The mirage is caused by the refraction and reflection of light as it passes from denser to rarer strata of air.
The sky grows brighter; and the Queen and her attendants, with their elephants and camels, appear in a mirage journeying eastward as Sulamith and her lover expire in each other's arms.
They perish in each other's arms; while in a mirage the Queen and her attendants are seen journeying to their home.
In consequence of the mirage it seemed to hover a little above the surface, and the animals looked like fantastic long-legged camels.
North of the spur a large flat plain extends, and here the miragewas marvellously perplexing.
In memory afterward it was all a ghastlymirage to him.
Humphreys says: "This type ofmirage is very common on the west coast of Great Salt Lake.
The later explorers found no land at the place indicated, but they observed the same mirage that Peary had mistaken for distant hills and mountains.
We saw several sandhill islands, some very high and deeply red, to which the mirage gave the effect of their floating in an ocean of water.
These undulations existed to the east, north, and west, while to the south we could but dimly see the mirage upon the plain we had recently traversed.
To the south a vague and strange horizon was visible; it appeared flat, as though a plain of great extent existed there, but as the mirage played upon it, I could not make anything of it.
They shall not hunger nor thirst, nor shall the mirage nor the sun smite them: for He that yearneth over them shall lead them, even by springs of water shall He guide them.
The retreat of the enemy was assisted by a mirage which disconcerted our gunners.
All that first mirage of beauty had disappeared, and there was nothing but the monstrous shapes of bursting shells, giants of smoke that appeared one after another along the Turkish lines.
I presume he told you it was a mirage of your dreams, did he not?
Mirage or no mirage I am going to run it to earth.
The mirage had disappeared by the time the start was made, and did not appear again to tantalize the suffering Overland Riders.
He here discusses the Moroccan imbroglio under the title of "the Mirage of the Map.
The deceitful mirage was even more vexatious than in the plains of Bohahire'h.
This mirage is so considerable in the plain of Pelusium that shortly after sunrise no object is recognisable.
In the vast plains of Bohahire'h the mirage every moment presented to the eye wide sheets of water, while, as we advanced, we found nothing but barren ground full of deep cracks.
Ballad: A Mirage Were I thy bride, Then the whole world beside Were not too wide To hold my wealth of love - Were I thy bride!
The Suicide's Grave He And She The Mighty Must A Mirage The Ghosts' High Noon The Humane Mikado Willow Waly!
Does the Cacique regard the miragewith earnestness?
Don Ruy looked at him sharply--for the mirage could not be a thing of wonder for so travelled a man.
If the production of any knowledge should certify its validity then there would be no invalidity, no illusory knowledge, and following our perception of even a mirage we should never come to grief.
The perception of a mirage is called invalid when proceeding in accordance with our perception we do not find anything that can serve the purposes of water (e.
Even the Buddha himself is a phenomenon, a mirageor a dream, and so are all his teachings [Footnote ref 3].
This world is thus only an unsubstantial appearance, a mirage imposed upon Brahman, the real par excellence.
When there is no movement to left or right the wind is either still for a moment or carrying the mirage directly towards or from the target.
The mirage had increased, tending to "throw" his shots low.
It will be noticed the mirage was bad and Dick's 2nd sighting shot and first four record shots were low, therefore he raised his sight 25 yards.
I rubbed my eyes and peered again and again, for often the false mirage had raised my hopes to a frantic pitch by its glittering deception.
Several curious effects of the mirage were observed by Baron Humboldt during his travels in South America.
The horizon trembles under the little vapours of miragelike water ruffled by the wind.
In the distance, where the mirage trembles from morning till evening, the burying is already almost achieved.
The one plays about, the other is steady; but I cannot hope to give a proper idea either of mirage or refraction so satisfactorily as I could wish.
The heated state of the atmosphere, and the sandy nature of the country could alone have caused a mirage so striking in its effects, as this,--exceeding considerably similar appearances noticed during the first expedition.
A mirage deceives her for a time, she sees the town and church, but it soon vanishes in air, and the maiden hurries on in the fierce heat.
Daudet notes the ease with which the southerner is carried away and duped by the mirage of his own fancy, his semi-sincerity in excitement and enthusiasm.
There can only be one opinion as to this mirage of his imagination; but, after all this, you will not be surprised to hear that they both long with equal ardor for their liberty, which they must wait for two years longer.
To acquire fresh glory, there must be, besides unity, a strength of organization it does not possess, and cannot, because it is a mirage and not a reality.
The sun stared, the heat rose in waves, the mirage shimmered, the dust devils of choking alkali whirled aloft or sank in suffocation on the hot earth.
Were those the sounds of children's voices on the hill, the rumbling of a cart--or was it all sight and sound alike, mirage and delirium?
In memory afterwards it was all a ghastly mirage to him.
