argosy
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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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Through the plain, brick-pointed door opposite famed Fortnum & Mason, movers wrestled a seemingly inexhaustible argosy of odd treasures.
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Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.
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How could this rugged hull prove an argosy of ineffabilities?”
From The Proud Prince by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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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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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Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
From the port of Hamburg her argosies of manufactures no longer went forth to the world in return for raw material.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
