argosy
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with even the best cargo, our argosy capsized.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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This noble chamber has a library attached to it, with a gallery round for maps and charts, which many a shipowner, sick at heart, with fears for his rich argosy, has conned and traced.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 .
From Time Magazine Archive
Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Yet this time the motor force is not the sailing of white argosies towards the east.
From Rosinante to the Road Again by John Dos Passos
