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/ˈɑrgəsi/ Listen

Argosy

noun

(pl. argosies)

One or more large merchant ships.

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"Argosy" Quotes from Famous Books

... as a Churchman, though with these your nobles Both in commission and opinion one, Am yet most loth, my Lord, to set my seal To aught which this harsh world might call complaint Against a princely saint—a chosen vessel— An argosy celestial—in whom error Is but the young luxuriance of her grace. The Count of Varila, as bound to neither, For both shall speak, and all which late has passed Upon the matter of this ...

— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley

... rainbow kicked up by her forefoot there glimmered and beckoned a mirage of wealthy cities sunk fathoms deep and tenanted only by strange sea creatures. For the tramp and her crew there was a stranger goal than was ever sought by an argosy of legend. The lost cities of Atlantis and all the wealth that they contain was the port awaiting the searchers under the rim of the ...

— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... riches in a little room. But now how stands the wind? Into what corner peers my halcyon's bill? [21] Ha! to the east? yes. See how stand the vanes— East and by south: why, then, I hope my ships I sent for Egypt and the bordering isles Are gotten up by Nilus' winding banks; Mine argosy from Alexandria, Loaden with spice and silks, now under sail, Are smoothly gliding down by Candy-shore To Malta, through our Mediterranean sea.— But ...

— The Jew of Malta • Christopher Marlowe

Words linked to "Argosy" : fleet