例文・使い方で印象づける「sextant」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...In vain I tried to bring to my recollection the way I had been taught to measure a river by taking an angle with the sextant... 
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Mado, who had disclaimed all knowledge of navigation, was busy in theturret with a sextant...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930」
...The only appliances which he made useof were a sextant constructed by himself, and a common clock; and yet,with those rude instruments, he successfully accomplished his object...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...Regarding it as a new and unusual phenomenon, he hastened to hisobservatory, adjusted his sextant, and measured its distances from thenearest stars in Cassiopeia...
David Brewster 「The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler」
...These instrumentswere an iron sextant, 2½ feet in diameter, and a brass azimuthalquadrant 3½ feet in diameter, both of which were divided intosingle minutes of a degree...
David Brewster 「The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler」
...The sailor can measure thedistance at any time by his sextant...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
...I maytruly say that for nearly twelve months I had been the well-wroughtslave not only of the sextant, the compass, and the pen, but of theshovel, the axe, and the needle also...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
...He alsoinvented the modern sextant...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...Idared not make any quick movement, but slowly withdrawing my right handfrom the sextant, I took hold of my rifle which lay close alongside...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
...Since my last attack of ophthalmia, I suffer great pain andconfusion when using the sextant...
Ernest Giles 「Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration」
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