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• “The bomb struck the lower part of the west slope of the top of the north transept, tearing the lead, breaking a piece of the wooden frame, and smashing by its explosion the crown of the pinnacle which cuts the balustrade at the right of the flying buttress intermediary in the sexpartite vault of the transept.”

  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

• “The vaulting is worthy of attention and is generally sexpartite in plan, although the simpler quadripartite form occurs in places.”

  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

• “It is octopartite in plan, developed from the sexpartite form by the addition of a longitudinal ridge-rib which divides its larger cells.”

  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

• “Senlis, of the same date, exhibits a great advance in mechanical skill and logical exactitude, with an innovation that commands less admiration -- the substitution of cylindrical columns for the intermediate piers on the caps of which rest the shafts of the intermediate ribs of the sexpartite vault.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “It is conceivable that sexpartite vaults may once have existed in Lombardy and before the quadripartite vault was evolved; this would explain the persistence in Sant 'Ambrogio of the vaulting shafts on the intermediate piers, for which no apparent reason exists.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “At Warkworth, there is a long vaulted chancel of two bays, built during the first quarter of the twelfth century; and at Tickencote, Rutland, two bays are combined in one by the use of sexpartite vaulting.”

  The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church

• “He cut an arc round the sexpartite circle of the Rond Point that lost no inch of advantage, and straightened out, ventre-à-terre, up the avenue for the place de l'Étoile, shooting madly in and out of the tide of more leisurely traffic -- and ever the motor of the touring-car purred contentedly just at his elbow.”

  The Lone Wolf A Melodrama

• “The sexpartite vaulting of the latter, together with that of the five other similarly vaulted Norman churches and of the choir of St-Denis at Paris, has always been an architectural puzzle, since it is manifestly a stage in the development of the oblong quadripartite vault, and yet is found in these cases some years after the latter system is known to have been fully understood in France, and nearly three-quarters of a century later than the vault of Sant 'Ambrogio.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “Intel's first sexpartite CPU: six-core Gulftown i7-980X Extreme Edition”

  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now

• “During the second phase (1140-80) the problem of vaulting great naves was attacked; the evolution centres in the peculiar development which the genius of the French builders gave to the concealed flying buttress and to the sexpartite vault, both borrowed from Normandy (Porter, op. cit.,”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

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