argosy
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With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams.
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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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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We were launched upon the sunny sea of high society, our "argosy" a noble and stately ship; and now, Kitty, we lie stranded, shattered, and shipwrecked.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
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
Tripolis, Mexico, England, Lisbon, Barbary, India, “where his argosies with portly sail,” “the pageants of the sea.”
From William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground by Scott Surtees
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