| 2H4 I.iii.55 | [Lord Bardolph to Hastings, of their cause] How able such a work to undergo, / To weigh against his opposite |
| 2H4 IV.i.16 | [Archbishop to Hastings and Mowbray, of Northumberland's hopes] That your attempts may overlive the hazard / And fearful meeting of their opposite |
| 2H6 V.iii.22 | [Salisbury to all, of the enemy] Being opposites of such repairing nature |
| Cor II.ii.19 | [First Officer to Second Officer, of Coriolanus and the people] he ... leaves nothing undone that may fully discover him their opposite |
| KL V.iii.151 | [Gonerill to Edmund] thou wast not bound to answer / An unknown opposite |
| KL V.iii.43 | [Albany to Edmund] You have the captives / Who were the opposites of this day's strife |
| MM III.ii.156 | [disguised Duke to Lucio] you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite |
| TN III.iv.227 | [Sir Toby to Viola as Cesario, of Sir Andrew] your opposite hath in him what youth, strength, skill, and wrath can furnish man withal |
| TN III.iv.261 | [Fabian to Viola as Cesario, of Sir Andrew] He is ... the most skilful, bloody, and fatal opposite that you could possibly have found in any part of Illyria |