LONE BAYOU De Soto was a gentleman of Spain In those proud years when Spanish chivalry From fierce adventure never did refrain,-- Ruler of argosies that ruled the sea, She looked on lesser nations in disdain, As born to trafficking or slavery.
Venice looms afar; The argosies of Venice, like a cloud, Bear up from Candia in the distance!
The argosies touch land by this; They bear us to fresh scenes and happier skies: What if we reign together?
Up its waters rich argosies and primitive war craft have come, and its ramifications east, west, and north proved a convenient channel along which to carry weal or woe into the ancient Northumbria.
The clouds sail past in argosies And cold drips the rain: The whole world is far and high Above the tilted plain.
Anthonio you are welcome, And I haue better newes in store for you Then you expect: vnseale this letter soone, There you shall finde three of your Argosies Are richly come to harbour sodainlie.
Captain Kidd had a large amount of treasure on board his vessel, which he had plundered mainly from the rich argosies which carried on the commerce between Spain and her colonies.
They could not understand those scruples of conscience which would allow them to plunder a few shipwrecked Frenchmen, and yet would turn aside from the rich argosies of the East.
Know'st thou the land that he laves in his flow, Where deep-laden argosies royally go?
A typical example of the primitive argosies is recorded in the British Chronicles where the arrival of Hengist and Horsa is described.
Whether this name has any connection with argonauts is immaterial, as the historic existence of argonauts and argosies is a matter of fact, not fancy.
In all probability this is a typical and true picture of the perennial argosies which periodically and persistently fared forth from Northern Europe and the Mediterranean into the Unknown.
Tremulously she repeated, "Argosies float on my bosom.
Here lived the Schiavoni (Dalmatian sailors), who manned the galleons and argosiesof the Republic.
Pietro Tradonico, the chosen of the democracy in 836, was much occupied with the pirates who, from their rocky fastnesses in the creeks and bays of the Dalmatian coast, swooped down on the rich Venetian argosies as they sailed the Adriatic.
Here in olden times the galleys and argosies of the Republic called to take in sweet water for the voyage and to pray for protection to the mariners' patron saint, and here stood a fair and costly lighthouse.
Argosies are properly defined to be "ships of great burthen," and so they are described almost wherever they are mentioned.
The city of argosies boldly fronts the sea on which her argosies were to sail, and fiercely do the waves of that sea sometimes dash upon her rocks.
Any bold man who could hold Tunis at the eastern corner, or Algiers in the middle, or Ceuta or Tangiers at the western point, might reckon upon numerous opportunities of stopping argosies of untold wealth as they passed by his lair.
I wonder, too, how many of those argosies she sent out seeking the golden fleece returned to her?
Their palm-thatched villages fringed its beaches and the blue harbors sheltered many sail which sallied forth to play havoc with the precious argosies of the English, French, and Dutch East India Companies.
And my golden argosies are now on the way from the Indies, bearing all manner of precious things, and bales of plush are on their way from Yorkshire.
The first shot fired would inevitably pour out the whole naval force of England, and his argosies would put their helms about, and steer for Portsmouth, Plymouth, and every port but a French one.
These happy seas Caressed the goldenargosies Of forty-nine.
Thus sailed over practically the same water the argosies of peace just as had sailed a century before those of Spain and of war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "argosies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
