[PLATE: TYCHO'S "NEW STAR" SEXTANT OF 1572. (The arms, of walnut wood, are about 5 1/2 ft. long.)]英文原著 · 《Great Astronomers》
[PLATE: TYCHO'S TRIGONIC SEXTANT. (The arms, AB and AC, are about 5 1/2 ft. long.)]英文原著 · 《Great Astronomers》
[PLATE: TYCHO'S ASTRONOMIC SEXTANT. (Made of steel: the arms, AB, AC, measure 4 ft.)英文原著 · 《Great Astronomers》
No; but you have been due this two months, ye know. Wrecked? Why, Captain, you haven't ever been wrecked?" And he looked him all over as if he expected to see "WRECKED" branded on him by the elements. "Ay, James, wrecked on the French coast, and lost my chronometer, and a tip-top sextant. But what of that? I saved _It._ I have just landed It in the Bank. Good-bye; I must sheer off: I long to be home."
"Stay a bit, Captain," said Maxley. "I am not quite easy in my mind.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
However, as it is best never to throw a chance away, about half-past eleven o'clock, though the sky resembled an even sheet of lead, I got my sextant ready, and told Mr. Wyse to do the same.英文原著 · 《Letters From High Latitudes》
They glanced at the newcomer but with a cheering absence of curiosity or even of interest. He sauntered past them with a polite but not-too-keen interest. The yacht would be an expensive one. The deck fittings were elaborate. A glance into the captain's cabin revealed it to be fully furnished, with a chart and a sextant on the mahogany desk. "Where's the bedding for this stateroom?" asked one of the men. "I got a prop-rustler after it," one of the others informed him. They strolled aft and paused by an iron standard ingeniously swung from the deck.英文原著 · 《Merton of the Movies》