argosy
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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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With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams.
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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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As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with even the best cargo, our argosy capsized.
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I stood and gazed far out into the waste; No dip of oar broke on the listening ear; But the quick rippling of the inward flood Gave warning of approaching argosy.
From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by W. H. (William Henry) Rhodes
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
Beneath them turn the glittering tides Where dizzy waters reel with gold, And strange, rich trophies sink and rise From decks of sunken argosies.
From Poems by Muriel Stuart
