Desert sights

Usage examples of mirages.

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.

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.

The faint trace of what we hoped was a road ran on and on, seemingly without end, and it was a relief when the mirages began, because they gave us something to look at.

It was dark purplish blue in the early light, but as Vicky watched in awe, it changed colour like some gargantuan chameleon, becoming gilded with bright sun colours and beginning at the same time to recede swiftly, until it was a pale wraith that dissolved into the first dancing heat mirages of the desert -day, and she felt the sultry puff of the rising wind.

If he had put something in the meat my mirages were perfectly understandable.

Rising off sun-scorched blacktop, currents of superheated air formed into mirages of people and cars and lakes of water.

To Jim, it was eerie that the water mirages on the highway a few days ago had now become real.