argosy
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As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with even the best cargo, our argosy capsized.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams.
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Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.
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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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He was traveling its long reaches in thought when fancy suddenly steered his argosy of dreams into the San Nicolas landing.
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Herman Whitaker
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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Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails .
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It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures.
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Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Within thy mighty depths, too, thou hast gems to deck the crowns of kings and the brows of loveliness; and yet thou cravest for more—more—and engulfest rich argosies with all their treasures—thou insatiate sea!
From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds
