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Golden Gate

noun

A strait in western California that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean; discovered in 1579 by Sir Francis Drake.

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"Golden gate" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Pacific and the Far East, which, as diplomatic historians have pointed out, does not seem to have been affected by the tradition of isolation. Since the day when the western frontier was pushed to the Golden Gate, the United States has taken an active interest in problems of the Pacific. Alaska was purchased from Russia. An American seaman was the first to open the trade of Japan to the outside world and thus precipitated ...

— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour

... good cow-puncher has gone to meet his fate, I hope he'll find a resting place within the golden gate. Another place is vacant on the ranch of the X I T, 'Twill be hard to find another that's liked as ...

— Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads • Various

... Golden Gate that afternoon, and we sat that night in the cabin, while Maya Dala and Irish cleared the table. The oil lamp swung overhead with the lift and fall of the ship, and Sadler spread himself six feet and more on the cabin lounge, and ...

— The Belted Seas • Arthur Colton

... I know that at last my message Has passed through the golden gate: So my heart is no longer restless, And I am ...

— Victorian Songs - Lyrics of the Affections and Nature • Various

... that house than anywhere else: two years almost to the day—two years of such happiness as no other home has ever seen. There, around the redwood table in the living-room, by the window overlooking the Golden Gate, we had the suppers that meant much joy to us and I hope to the friends we gathered around us. There, on the porches overhanging the very Canyon itself we had our Sunday tea-parties. (Each time Carl would plead, "I don't have to wear a stiff collar, ...

— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker

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