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San Francisco Bay
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What does San Francisco Bay mean?
proper noun
- A large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, which gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.
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It was built close to the railroad tracks, just across which was the dirty, muddy shore of San Francisco Bay.
The water-party were gone three days, during which time they narrowly escaped being carried out to sea, and passed one day on an island, where one of them shot a deer, great numbers of which overrun the islands and hills of San Francisco Bay.
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On the beauties of San Francisco Bay it is, perhaps, needless to dwell, as everybody has heard or read of this magnificent sheet of water, its surface flecked with snowy sails, and surrounded by a beautiful framework of evergreen hills; its only outlet to the ocean the famous Golden Gate - a narrow channel through which come and go the ships of all nations.