argosy
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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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With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams.
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For an hour they ran on gaily, with little or no trouble, because the men could see broken water a long way ahead and promptly piloted their argosy towards the open channel.
From His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy
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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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
Their palm-thatched villages fringed its beaches and the blue harbors sheltered many sail which sallied forth to play havoc with the precious argosies of the English, French, and Dutch East India Companies.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
