| Cym IV.iii.6 | [Cymbeline to all] my queen / Upon a desperate bed [i.e. deathbed] |
| H5 IV.ii.37 | [Grandpr?š to all, of the English army] Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones |
| Ham IV.vii.26 | [Laertes to Claudius] A sister driven into desperate terms |
| MW III.v.114 | [Ford as Brook to Falstaff] My suit, then, is desperate? |
| Sonn.147.7 | [] I desperate now approve / Desire is death |
| TG III.ii.5 | [Thurio to Duke, of Silvia] I am desperate of obtaining her |
| Tim III.iv.103 | [Hortensius to Servants, of Timon] These debts may well be called desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em |
| TN II.ii.8 | [Malvolio to Viola as Cesario, of Olivia] you should put your lord into a desperate assurance she will none of him |