| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.239 | O ominous! He comes to kill my heart. | O ominous, he comes to kill my Hart. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.452 | When he lay couched in th' ominous horse, | When he lay couched in the Ominous Horse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.15 | Thou ominous and fearful owl of death, | Thou ominous and fearefull Owle of death, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.107 | For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous. | For Glosters Dukedome is too ominous. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.39 | rhyme; very ominous endings. No, I was not born under | time: verie ominous endings, no, I was not borne vnder |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.9 | Fatal and ominous to noble peers! | Fatall and ominous to Noble Peeres: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.40 | Thy mother's name is ominous to children. | Thy Mothers Name is ominous to Children. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.6 | My dreams will sure prove ominous to the day. | My dreames will sure proue ominous to the day. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.66 | To tell thee that this day is ominous. | to tell thee that this day is ominous: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.20 | Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us – if | take heede, the quarrel's most ominous to vs: if |