argosy
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Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams.
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There are husbands who know whate'er time it may be Their wives on the jetty will wait For that Hymeneal argosy, With its matrimonial freight.
From Mr. Punch at the Seaside by Various
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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It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures.
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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
Fleets may founder and argosies may sink, but your dollars come safely in the pockets of their owners, and are paid, without any cost of collection, into the treasury of the State.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
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