To hear nonexistent voices or see "mirages" risk anyone that receive 316 milligrams of caffeine per day. From Wordnik.com. [fullasagoog.com full roast blend] Reference
Perfect control and precise forecasts are mirages. From Wordnik.com. [Deane Waldman: Nothing Is Everything: Fallacy of "The One."] Reference
And mirages of black splintering along the gravel. From Wordnik.com. [Bonnie Parker Visits Her Final Getaway] Reference
Like mirages these things at a distance seem lovely. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheel of Sharp Weapons] Reference
They called these creations mirages, visions, dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Last Drop]
We see mirages in deserts even when there is no water. From Wordnik.com. [Srinivasan Pillay: Why Rational Thinking Is Not All It's Cracked Up To Be] Reference
In the desert of delusion only mirages can be reached. From Wordnik.com. [The Year of Living Dangerously: Part Two of Two] Reference
The word conjures up pictures of dunes, oases, mirages. From Wordnik.com. [The Squire of Gothos] Reference
It was a mere feeling like all feelings, mirages really. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
In the desert, green shoots often turn out to be mirages. From Wordnik.com. [Dubai's Economic Woes Just Got Worse] Reference
But of course the desert was tricky, and full of mirages. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower]
Sunlight sparks upon the sand as flickering mirages confound. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
Both are freakish mirages, in the desert of Darling's misery. From Wordnik.com. [Mirages in the desert of Darling's misery] Reference
I looked up and down the road and all I could see were mirages. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Childhood Heroes (or "Roadkill")] Reference
Maybe when I look I see mirages. powered by SignMyGuestbook. com. From Wordnik.com. [absentia Diary Entry] Reference
Here, anything goes at Z-Katz, a throb and a thump of strobe mirages. From Wordnik.com. [Dig That Girl!] Reference
We've seen the mirages, the "just over the next hill" promised lands. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Neiman: The Tenacity of Fear...] Reference
We know those mirages, we know those realities, we work for the future. From Wordnik.com. [ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA] Reference
Outside their mirages they have only the power to cloud one's thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
Now, toward the end of the afternoon, the mirages were settling a little. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
We\'ve seen the mirages, the \ "just over the next hill\" promised lands. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Neiman: The Tenacity of Fear...] Reference
And so our enemy uses mirages, and will-o'-the-wisps and tinselled crowns. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
In the shining mirages ahead he thought he saw horsemen, who never appeared. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
But we Democratic candidates have been fooled by electoral-victory mirages before. From Wordnik.com. [Peeks Into the Diaries of the Candidates and Hank Paulson] Reference
It was a dry year, the grass of the llano brown, the long plain shimmering with mirages. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
All about them the mountains seemed afloat, dark masses appearing and fading like mirages. From Wordnik.com. [Morgawr]
With our country in crisis, this is not the time for smokescreens, mirages, and propaganda. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Devin: John McCain's Tax Lie] Reference
He spoke of hot deserts, solitudes under the stars, mirages less mocking than his aspirations. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The mirages had died away and gloomily he ran his eye along the taut blue line of the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
But where it really counts -- in Egypt and Saudi Arabia -- such civil institutions remain mirages. From Wordnik.com. [Amb. Marc Ginsberg: "I Have a Mirage!" Bush Declares to the Arab World] Reference
Revenue may be drying up at home, but Europe's telecommunications operators need to beware of emerging-market mirages. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Telecom Companies Need a Skeptical Eye Abroad] Reference
The scenery in the desert part was much improved by mirages of beautiful blue lakes and streams, nearly under our feet. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Was he the sport of a dream or of one of those mirages which rise before men who travel across the sandy African deserts?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As in the mirages of the desert, in each as it rises, I see some image of which my mind had been longing for the reality. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There were an unusual number of mirages in the air that day — body-less heads floated about and disembodied screams were heard. From Wordnik.com. [Bicycle Boys] Reference
"Well, it was wonderful enough as it was," declared Nort, and even those who have seen many mirages will agree with this, I think. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference
False distinction, that which is based upon effrontery, is like those mirages of the desert whose appearance troubles the traveler. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
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