argosy

• These and plenty of lemons, which they found very wholesome and refreshing, were used as food Once more the Golden Hind was at sea steering northward, the richest argosy which had ever yet floated on the ocean. —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
• Its ships sailed over all the Mediterranean and from them is derived the word "argosy," signifying a ship laden with wealth. —  The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne
• Hence, by the time Ormsby had come to the second filling of his pipe, he had pieced together bits of half-forgotten gossip about the Croydon summer, curious little reticences on Elinor's part, vague hints let fall by Mrs. Brentwood; enough to enable him to chart the rock on which his love-argosy was drifting, and to name it--David Kent Now to a well-knit man of the world--who happens to be a heaven-born diplomatist into the bargain--to be forewarned is to be doubly armed. —  The Grafters
• To have lost that argosy is to be dead, no matter how healthy an appetite we retain ON WEARING A FUR-LINED COAT A friend of mine--one of those people who talk about money with an air of familiarity that suggests that they have got an "out-crop" of the Rand reef in their back-gardens--said to me the other day that I ought to buy a fur-lined coat. —  Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
• The Grecian sailors, too, when they observed the vessels approach so near, filled with the steel-clad Latins, began to shrink from a contest to be maintained hand to hand with so terrible an enemy By degrees, smoke began to issue from the sides of the great Grecian argosy, and the voice of Tancred announced to his soldiers that the Grecian Admiral's vessel had taken fire, owing to negligence in the management of the means of destruction she possessed, and that all they had now to do was to maintain such a distance as to avoid sharing her fate. —  Waverley Novels — Volume 12

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