| 1H4 IV.i.5 | [Hotspur to Douglas] not a soldier of this season's stamp / Should go as general current through the world |
| 2H6 V.ii.43 | [Young Clifford to himself] Now let the general trumpet blow his blast |
| AC I.ii.106 | [Antony to Messenger] mince not the general tongue [i.e. what everyone is saying] |
| AW I.iii.219 | [Helena to Countess, of her father's prescriptions] collected / For general sovereignty |
| Cor III.i.146 | [Coriolanus to Brutus] the yea and no / Of general ignorance |
| Cor III.ii.66 | [Volumnia to Coriolanus] show our general louts / How you can frown |
| Cym IV.i.12 | [Cloten alone, of himself compared to Posthumus] alike conversant in general services [i.e. of the kind that everyone does] |
| Ham II.ii.560 | [Hamlet alone, of the First Player] And cleave the general ear with horrid speech |
| JC V.v.71 | [Antony to all, of Brutus] in a general honest thought / And common good to all |
| KL IV.vi.206 | [Gentleman to all, as if Lear] Thou hast one daughter / Who redeems nature from the general curse [i.e. the evil affecting everyone] |
| LLL II.i.11 | [Boyet to Princess, of her beauty given by Nature] When she did starve the general world beside |
| TC V.ii.135 | [Troilus to Ulysses] do not give advantage / To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme / For depravation, to square the general sex / By Cressid's rule [i.e. women as a whole] |
| Tim IV.i.6 | [Timon alone] To general filths / Convert o'th' instant, green virginity |
| Tim IV.iii.161 | [Timon to all, of removing the nose] Of him that, his particular to foresee, / Smells from the general weal [i.e. goes hunting off on his own] |
| Tim V.ii.7 | [Messenger to Senators, of a courier] though in general part we were opposed [i.e. in public affairs] |
| Tit II.iii.183 | [Lavinia to and of Tamora] The blot and enemy to our general name |