It was perhaps only one of the many desert mirages which were far more common on Mars than they were on Earth.
A man who has once looked at the bright, scarred face of a cliff wall in the Martian sunlight will remember it even in his dreams and no mirages are really necessary.
Dodo's Elysium lasted longer than such mirages are wont to do.
And strange grotesque mirages climbed up into the glaring heavens.
So one after another of their number lay down and died or went mad and ran off toward some of the mirages which were perpetually torturing all of them with visions of cool lakes, until thirteen had perished.
Mirages of trees bordering shimmering lakes and spreading water such as we had come through below Yuma were to be seen, even out towards the sea.
The yellow dust-waves and the miragesdisappeared with the going down of the sun.
Mirages in the distance beckoned, trees and lakes were seen over toward the mountains where we had seen nothing but desert before; heat waves rose and fell.
From three o'clock until sunset the miragesslowly fade away into the many-tinted veils of evening.
Now and then mirages like squadrons of cavalry hovered along the edges of them.
Out there in the heart of the country you seem to stand alone, with nothing nearer or more palpable than the wind, the fierce mirages and the limitless distances.
You mean it was a trick of nature, like the more common mirages of lakes on the desert?
Now and then in this silver glow, mirages swam into his view.
A forerunner this, of the mirages he was to encounter later on, when magic cities would seem to rise before his tired eyes, then crumble away among the clouds.
Her life became a blank, colorless waste, all the more terrible because of the mirages with which it was lighted.
For she had told no one that the mirages were no more than mirages--that her life still lacked all the vital elements of reality and sincerity.
He cannot resist the mirages of his heart or his imagination.
The Indian herds had given us a good start in the morning, and towards evening as the mirages lifted, not a dust-signal was in sight, save one far in our lead.
Summer weather had already set in, and during the middle of the day the glare of heat-waves and mirages obstructed our view of other wayfarers like ourselves, but morning and evening we were never out of sight of their signals.
Both creek and trail were clearly outlined before us, but with the heat-waves and mirages beyond, our view was naturally restricted.
What does the hot sand and the trackless waste matter so long as I have these beautiful mirages to look at?
Such contrasts are so frequent that we can easily recognize the expression of a psychological law, due to the mirages of the amorous passions on the one hand and the inverse reaction on the other.
A reciprocal illusion transforms life momentarily into mirages of paradise.
As the man of science proceeds on his modest and toilsome wanderings, which must often enough be journeys in the desert, he is confronted with those brilliant mirages known as "philosophic systems.
And now she was discovering that even Nature was something of a liar, with hermirages and her horizons.
In the secluded Jim-Jam Valley of the San Bernardino Mountains there are the most marvelous mirages known to the world.
To one who has never seen the famous mirages which Dame Nature paints with a lavish hand upon the horizon that bounds an Arizona desert, it is difficult to convey an intelligent portrait of these magnificent phenomena.
The wonderful mirages of the Mojave Desert have been talked about a great deal, and they are entitled to all the prominence they have had.
Alone, either of us will be led away by mirages in a little while.
Sometimes on deserts, over ice fields, or on northern seas, mirages are of the inverted type.
Arctic miragesare no less wonderful than those of the hot barren deserts.
I have seen mirages and have heard others told of, but the best mirages of all we never hear described; the mirage that waterless travellers see at the last.
Nor was it only at a distance that these deceptive mirages seemed to be formed.
It was easy to believe in these two superfluous continents; they were mirages of the New World.
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