argosy
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With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams.
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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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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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A widower—not only “warm,” but very safe—he had weathered all the shoals and quicksands of “the street,” and had brought his golden argosy safe into the port of investment.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails .
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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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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
Even old John Bull, grown rich, and plethoric, and asthmatic and gouty, trembled when he thought of his rich argosies, and of the possibility of Yankee privateers chasing them.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
