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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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.
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Many men have written of the sailing of the first argosy of troopships from that bay; and by this time the spectacle of departing troops was an old one to the vessels there.
From The Secret Battle by Herbert, A. P.
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
From far shores came those white-sailed argosies of old; from far Eastern shores where warm suns shine and sweet odours linger about strange gardens and gay temples.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
