argosy
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As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with even the best cargo, our argosy capsized.
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Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.
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Through the plain, brick-pointed door opposite famed Fortnum & Mason, movers wrestled a seemingly inexhaustible argosy of odd treasures.
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Accompanied by his wife Muriel, more than 50 reporters, staffers and Secret Service men and an argosy of silver bowls, spoons and forks to bestow on his hosts, Humphrey deplaned first at Geneva.
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She has fallen back on the one great comfort, the one pearl saved from the wrecked argosy.
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas
For years now, those "argosies of magic sails" have been gliding in and out of airports as if flight were as natural to man as walking.
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It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures.
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Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails .
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Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The firmament between the clouds faded from a blood-red through orange and daffodil into an exquisite green, which spread like a sea of glory through which those magnificent argosies slowly sailed.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
