Example Sentences

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Argosies of viands and wines were lightered in and unloaded while the white-hulled honeymoon yacht creaked at her quay.

From Time Magazine Archive

Saw the vision of the world, And all the wonder that would be, Saw the Heavens fill with commerce, Argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, Dropping down with costly bales.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few fishermen's dories only were rocking on the waves, tethered to the wharves by rotten ropes, where the great cotton Argosies in former years had shipped or landed their cargoes.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

Life! life! it is insipid, it is shallow, —no launching Argosies in the saucer.

From My Novel — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Argosies touched here, leaving priceless gifts; fountains flowed, and cornfields waved in the genial sunshine.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman