Meanings of take sights in English

At noon, I stopped about a mile short of the depot to take sights.

You used to take sights of comfort with 'em.

The operation generally requires two observers to take sights, and at one and the same time.

I wished to take sights for the purpose of ascertaining the rate of my chronometer, and to lay down my surveys.

Since the computer aboard ship had done all the mathematics necessary, he needed only to take sights to determine the precise positions.

Kingozi seated himself on a flat rock and at once began to take sights through a prismatic compass, entering the observations in a pocketbook.

Free of all mist, the horizon was ideal for taking sights.

Bowers took sights to-day and will take them every third day.

I told him I was taking sights on the sun, not on the fortification.

The day was cloudy, but cleared at night, and I took sights for time, latitude, and lunar distance.

Here I took sights and made the meridian altitude of the sun A.H. 83 degrees 85 minutes.

In 1853 an English man-of-war visited this island, and two of the officers were hoisted up in the basket for the purpose of taking sights.

"I wonder if Millard has been taking sights, too, and has had a peep at me, that way?"