Francisco

Examples

• Steamers plied daily between San Francisco and both Stockton and Sacramento. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Italy has not as many telephones as San Francisco, and all Russia, fewer than Chicago. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Watson, in San Francisco, over a wire stretching 3,400 miles across the continent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was no way of reaching Humboldt at that time except to take passage on a San Francisco sailing vessel going after lumber. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I always expect her to sheer off to Damascus or San Francisco; she's a bird of paradise. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• From San Francisco to Buenos Aires, via Valparaiso and Magellan, is approximately 7,610 miles, which is shorter than the route through the canal, by which the distance is 8,941 miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I was in San Francisco again in 1854. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In San Francisco, a year ago. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• In 1880 Muybridge produced, in San Francisco, the ‘Zoopraxiscope,’ which projected pictures (on glass positives) on a screen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It reminded me too painfully of that San Francisco undertaker who used to go to sick-beds with his watch in his hand and time the corpse. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is equivalent to our phrases from Maine to Texas --from Baltimore to San Francisco. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The logical outcome is a Pacific cable, a bill for which, connecting San Francisco and Honolulu, has already passed the United States Senate. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She is an armored battleship of the first class, built by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, and launched Oct. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This gave me a good opportunity of comparing the San Francisco of 1852 with that of 1853. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• San Francisco. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The disease did not break out again on the way to California, and we reached San Francisco early in September. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I want to see San Francisco anyway. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I was obliged to remain in San Francisco for several days before I found a vessel. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He had been brought up by an uncle in San Francisco and was visiting his father and mother in Torino when war was declared. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• San Francisco at that day was a lively place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The illustration shows a battery of powerful searchlights, the use of which furnished some very effective displays during the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• From Baltimore to San Francisco is several thousand miles, but it will be only a seven days' journey in the cars when I am two or three years older. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The canal makes San Francisco nearer to Liverpool by 5,666 miles, a saving of two-fifths of the old journey by Magellan. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In this way all the copies as they come from the presses are dispatched, so that the man in San Francisco and the man in Philadelphia find the magazine on the news-stand on the same day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• From San Francisco to Freetown, on the west coast of middle Africa, the distance by the most practicable route, using the Strait of Magellan, is 11,380 miles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The distance between San Francisco and Gibraltar has been reduced from 12,571 miles to 7,621 miles, a saving of 4,950 miles, or thirty-nine per cent of the former distance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then, changing my mind, I almost decided to go to San Francisco, and have a try at gold-digging. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The opening of the first transcontinental line between New York and San Francisco on January 25, 1915, was an epoch-making event in telephone history. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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