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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Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.

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I see the indifferent pass before my friend’s last resting-place; pause, with a shrug of pity, marvelling that so rich an argosy had sunk.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis