argosy

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With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams.

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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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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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The book is a mere cockboat beside the mighty argosy of the Cyrus, running only to four volumes and some two thousand pages.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George