argosy

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He has adopted a ready-made: the sinless version of Shostakovich peddled by “Testimony,” supplemented by the most lurid tales from Ms. Wilson’s argosy and a published letter or two.

From New York Times

Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.

From Literature

Tripolis, Mexico, England, Lisbon, Barbary, India, “where his argosies with portly sail,” “the pageants of the sea.”

From Project Gutenberg

Their visions of South American argosies melted into thin air.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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