argosy
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Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.
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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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Through the plain, brick-pointed door opposite famed Fortnum & Mason, movers wrestled a seemingly inexhaustible argosy of odd treasures.
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With much reluctance the Khan consented, and the argosy set forth.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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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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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Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
He thought upon his merchandise and his adventures o'er sea—his treasures and his argosies, committed to the tender mercies of the deep; and he recounted them in brief.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John
