argosy
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Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with even the best cargo, our argosy capsized.
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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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Hour by hour I watched my argosy grow, and then—on the night before it was ready to launch—came "Calamity."
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails .
From Time Magazine Archive
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
All his argosies were borne on favoring winds, and Hankes saw his great defensive armor hung up to rust and to rot.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
