| Ham II.ii.209 | [Polonius to himself, of Hamlet] How pregnant sometimes his replies are! |
| KL II.i.75 | [Edmund to Gloucester, as if Edgar to Edmund] the profits of my death / Were very pregnant and potential spurs / To make thee seek it |
| WT V.ii.30 | [Third Gentleman to all, of the rumour that Perdita is found] Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by circumstance |