argosy
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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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Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.
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Mrs. Clayton Vernon departed with the large movement of an argosy, and Beatrice sat down to the piano and removed her bracelets.
From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold