The sextant is the one most in use and so will be described first. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures in Navigation] Reference
The sextant, which is the instrument universally used at sea, was gradually evolved from similar instruments used from the earliest times. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
I spent a considerable time in repairing my sextant. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
I'm taking a sextant up top and taking a moon-sight. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Station Zebra]
Here were found a sextant, several knives, some coins. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages] Reference
"It was under the sextant," he explained triumphantly. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet] Reference
Haldane, and get my sextant for me, there's a good chap!. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference
Miles, who had just then come up from below with his sextant. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
As they had had time to take with them a sextant chromometer and. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician] Reference
Prof. had forgotten his sextant and rode back to our main camp for it. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
She pointed an old-fashioned sextant out the window and sighted Polaris. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
Upon examining my sextant I found the index error was 39 degrees 1 minute. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
The sun is too vertical for taking it with my sextant and artificial horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
I wanted, besides, a sextant, a few philosophical instruments, and some books. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference
It may be held in the hand like a sextant, or may be carried on a light staff. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891] Reference
Yesterday I discovered that I had not repaired my sextant in a satisfactory manner. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Dontor glanced at the juniors, saw that Kuero had his sextant ready, and raised his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Players] Reference
He replaced his sextant in its case, then headed the small procession back to the cabins. From Wordnik.com. [The Players] Reference
Captain Miles was sitting on the port bulwarks, which were intact, polishing up his sextant. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
Naval Academy announced it will no longer teach midshipmen to navigate with a sextant and the stars. From Wordnik.com. [A Satellite To Steer Her By] Reference
High noon, and a red spot visible overhead; the captain brings out his sextant to take an observation. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
"Making a long leg like this gives him a chance, sir," grumbled Prowse, juggling with telescope and sextant. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
The captain proceeded, armed with a sextant, to take the height of the sun, which would give him his latitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean] Reference
Box sextant, used as giving angular accuracy to any of the foregoing; most useful with taping, and in following. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
Some of the astronomical instruments which they constructed, including the sextant and the gnomon, are still in use. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The radio compass is dependable day or night, and is said to be quite as reliable as a sextant or other navigating instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Opportunities in Aviation] Reference
At this period of our journey the sextant was too much out of order for making sufficiently accurate observations of the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Using the sextant and other apparatus, some of which Tom had invented himself, the exact position of the submarine was calculated. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic] Reference
He had his sextant in his hand and had just finished measuring the angle subtended between the Loire's masthead and her waterline. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
The many interests of his new life, together with the use of a pocket sextant, prompted him to make various experiments for himself. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
Rolls of parchment with unknown characters, compasses, a sextant, a triangle, and other instruments, lay scattered round in disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
From the observatory with a sextant he made an observation every six hours, making allowance for the declination of the sun, meantime. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
But of course I have an advantage, in that I navigate by sextant and can't even get to the Safeway without first consulting a star chart. From Wordnik.com. [Feelin' equinoctial again] Reference
Mr Marline liked to chaff the captain about this, telling him that his sextant wanted polishing up a bit and that the glasses were wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
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