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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because of the track, navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover.
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Even Powell, constantly consulting sextant and compass, felt flummoxed.
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Once, Billy Hawkins got up in the middle of dinner, walked to the boats, and pulled out the sextant .
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So I forgot about him, at least until that evening when I gave Ellen some practice with the sextant .
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That was one of the problems of using the piste and a sextant .
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You had to be able to fix your position just like a ship at sea, with sextant and star charts.