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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Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.
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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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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 Arnold Bennett
It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures.
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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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Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
