argosy
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Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through the plain, brick-pointed door opposite famed Fortnum & Mason, movers wrestled a seemingly inexhaustible argosy of odd treasures.
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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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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the deck of the 'War Sprite' Raleigh had the mortification of seeing the smoke of this priceless argosy go up to heaven.
From Raleigh by Andrew Lang
It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails .
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
If we have inherited a great commerce and dominion of science it is because their argosies had been on the ocean, and their camels on the desert.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
