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Updated: June 29, 2025
This circumstance gave rise to the celebrated "Gunsight Lead," a phantom that was chased in every direction from Death Valley; but, like the mirage of the desert, the lead was never found. In summer the valley is said to be the hottest place on the face of the earth, and persons deprived of water even for an hour become insane.
And now in an instant these visions were fading like a mirage. The archduke, whom poverty and mutiny were to render powerless against invasion, was following close up upon the heels of the triumphant army of the stadholder. A decision was immediately necessary. The siege of Nieuport was over before it had begun.
For, if wifehood were to be regarded as a profession, Rachel Ogden had every qualification. And Mrs. Whitely's skilful suggestions had on occasions almost brought him to believe in the reality of the mirage, never quite.
"Nope. Jest plain, every-day cactus. An' over hyar look down the valley. Somethin' of a pretty forest, ain't thet?" he asked, pointing. Madeline saw a beautiful forest in the center of the valley toward the south. "Wal, Miss Majesty, thet's jest this deceivin' air. There's no forest. It's a mirage." "Indeed! How beautiful it is!"
"If I am not mistaken, there is land over there. Our houseboat is being carried straight toward it." The girls called down their discovery to Miss Jenny Ann, but the watchers below had also been conscious of a change in the horizon. Miss Jenny Ann feared that she had seen a mirage, she had gazed so long at the water.
The pick of the mason has brought down the proud gateway which its imperial builder fondly imagined was to last for ages. The Tuileries preceded it into oblivion. The Alpha and Omega of that gorgeous pageant of the fifties vanished like a mirage! It is not here alone one finds Paris changing. A railway is being brought along the quais with its depot at the Invalides.
For the days of a man are full of peril and he cannot rely on so much as a moment more of life; and still the people, who are even as a wavering mirage of illusions, tell themselves that in the end they shall reach the heights. Alas for them!
When, every now and then, in the pauses of their own conversation, Elsmere caught something of the chatter going on at the other end of the table, or when the party became fused into one for a while under the genial influence of a good story or the exhilaration of a personal skirmish, the whole scene the dainty oval room, the lights, the servants, the exquisite fruit and flowers, the gleaming silver, the tapestried walls would seem to him for an instant like a mirage, a dream, yet with something glittering and arid about it which a dream never has.
It is said that he does this in obedience to the voice of reason; but reason in the sense that you give it, is a mirage. It is only another passion, hardened, intellectualised, and therefore fanatical.
Dreaming of her child, whose pure image hovered in the mirage hope wove before her "She seemed all earthly matters to forget, Of all tormenting lines her face was clear, Her wide brown eyes upon the goal were set, Calm and unmoved as though no foe were near."
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