A lively fight ensued, in which the Britaine lost fifteen men, and the argosy twenty, and then surrendered to save herself from sinking.
An argosy of Venice hove in sight, and Captaine la Roche desired to speak to her.
The reply was so "untoward" that a man was slain, whereupon the Britaine gave the argosy a broadside, and then his stem, and then other broadsides.
That no time might be lost, Grayson asked Maxwell to come the next morning and read the piece to such of them as he could get together in the Argosy greenroom, and give them his sense of it.
Louise had taken the letter from the maid, and she handed it to Maxwell with a gasp at sight of the Argosy theatre address printed in the corner of the envelope.
In the evening, while he was talking it over with his wife in a discouragement which they could not shake off, a messenger came to him with a letter from the Argosy Theatre, which he tore nervously open.
For an hour they ran on gaily, with little or no trouble, because the men could see broken water a long way ahead and promptly piloted their argosy towards the open channel.
With much reluctance the Khan consented, and the argosy set forth.
That she shall have, besides an argosy That now is lying in Marseilles road.
But the argosy they awaited was not yet in sight, and he confessed that certain proposals which he had made to Asad for landing her in France had been rejected.
And consider that if we fly from a danger that doth not exist, and in our flight are so fortunate as not to render real that danger and to court it, we abandon a rich argosy that shall bring profit to us all.
Thou didst not know that this Dutch argosy would cross thy path," said Marzak, in the very words his mother had prompted him.
Face to face stood he now with Rosamund, for the first time since that day before the encounter with the Dutch argosy when he had sought her in the cabin of the carack.
Even now the galeasse should be setting out if the argosy is to be intercepted," he said.
Yet had he sailed alone I doubt if the Spanish argosy had concerned him greatly.
They returned in mourning to Algiers--mourning not for the Spanish argosy which had been allowed to go her ways unmolested, but for the stoutest captain that ever bared his scimitar in the service of Islam.
Above, on the bridge, Hozier smiled sourly at the squall which had so suddenly beset the fair argosy of the convivial-minded Watts.
His argosywhich he had hoped to see returning from her voyage laden with golden freight!
Once more the Golden Hind was at sea steering northward, the richest argosy which had ever yet floated on the ocean.
As they examined her from the trucks to the water's edge, they were more and more convinced that she was the argosy of which they had been so long in chase.
This news exhilarated the hearts of the rovers, who hoped that she might prove as rich an argosy as that taken by Drake.
Two large ships with anargosy were taken, and much booty fell to the captors.
Many of the Spanish ships were completely disabled in this day's fight, and a Venetian argosy and several transports remained in possession of the English.
To have lost that argosy is to be dead, no matter how healthy an appetite we retain.
