| 1H6 V.iii.37 | [Richard to Pucelle] Charles the Dauphin is a proper man |
| 2H6 IV.ii.88 | [Cade to all, of the Clerk] The man is a proper man |
| AYL I.ii.112 | [Le Beau to Rosalind and Celia] Three proper young men |
| AYL III.v.51 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Silvius, of Phebe] You are a thousand times a properer man / Than she a woman |
| AYL III.v.55 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Silvius, of Phebe] she sees herself more proper / Than any of her lineaments can show her |
| JC I.i.24 | [Cobbler to Flavius] As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork |
| KL I.i.17 | [Kent to Gloucester, of Edmund] being so proper |
| MA II.iii.181 | [Claudio to Don Pedro, of Benedick] He is a very proper man |
| MA V.i.165 | [Don Pedro to Benedick, of Beatrice] she concluded ... thou wast the properest man in Italy |
| MND I.ii.80 | [Quince to Bottom] Pyramus is ... a proper man as one shall see in a summer's day |
| MV I.ii.68 | [Portia to Nerissa, of Falconbridge] He is a proper man's picture |
| Oth I.iii.386 | [Iago alone] Cassio's a proper man |
| Oth IV.iii.34 | [Desdemona to Emilia] This Lodovico is a proper man |
| R3 I.ii.254 | [Richard to himself, of Anne] she finds ... / Myself to be a marvellous proper man |
| RJ II.iv.200 | [Nurse to Romeo, of Juliet] I ... tell her that Paris is the properer man |
| TC I.ii.193 | [Pandarus to Cressida, of Antenor] he's ... a proper man of person |
| TG IV.i.10 | [Third Outlaw to other Outlaws, of Valentine] he's a proper man |
| Tit V.ii.50 | [Titus to disguised Tamora] Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet |
| TN II.ii.29 | [Viola alone] How easy is it for the proper false / In women's waxen hearts to set their forms |
| TN III.i.130 | [Olivia to Viola as Cesario] Your wife is like to reap a proper man |
| TNK II.iv.16.1 | [Pirithous to Theseus, of Arcite] Upon my soul, a proper man |
| TS I.ii.141 | [Grumio to Hortensio, of Gremio] A proper stripling and an amorous! |